From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Werner LEMBERG Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: hanging punctuation Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:49:44 +0200 (CEST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030421.154944.41646541.wl@gnu.org> References: <20030421.123859.26921649.wl@gnu.org> <200304211342.h3LDgw0r028832@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050940617 25252 80.91.224.249 (21 Apr 2003 15:56:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:56:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 21 17:56:56 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 197df6-0006Z9-00 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 17:56:56 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 197djw-00072l-00 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:01:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 197dfW-0005bc-00 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 11:57:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 197deV-0004kk-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 11:56:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 197ddF-00048P-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 11:55:03 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.185]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 197dbZ-0002PV-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 11:53:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.160] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 197dbY-0006FU-00; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 17:53:16 +0200 Original-Received: from [193.158.187.246] (helo=orion.local) (TLSv1:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.35 #1) id 197dbX-0002YR-00; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 17:53:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])h3LDniN16735; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:49:44 +0200 Original-To: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu In-Reply-To: <200304211342.h3LDgw0r028832@rum.cs.yale.edu> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.0.51 on Emacs 21.3.50.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13326 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13326 > > Set the right margin to 72 characters and do C-u M-q: > > > > The file found in "include/freetype/config/ftoption.h" contains a list > > of commented configuration macros that can be toggled by developers to > > indicate which features should be active in their build of the library. > > > > Note the hanging final full stop. Basically, this is very nice > > from a typographical point of view, nevertheless, it is a bug > > since you can replace the `.' with any other character and it > > still sticks out one character. > > When reporting such bugs it is immensely useful if you can tell us > whether or not the bug that was present in older versions and if so > which one is the latest one you know worked correctly. I've no idea, sorry. I believe that this behaviour is rather recent -- at least, I've never noticed it before, and I'm quite sensitive to such things. > I.e. in the ideal situation the report comes with a note "this > behavior was changed by the following commit...", but even > if you don't go through the trouble of figuring out such a precise > "last version working", please tell us as much of the history > of the bug as you can come up with. Well, I simply don't have the time to do that. I'm in preparation of the next groff version which costs an incredible amount of time, really. Werner