On 02/01/16 01:04, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au> writes:
>
>> On 01/01/16 18:25, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>>> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Ricardo Wurmus (2015-12-31 12:52 +0300) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you know though, is there any way to get emacs to insert the extra
>>>>>> space in description strings and comments automatically (without it
>>>>>> messing things up of course). Perhaps we should modify the importers to
>>>>>> insert this automatically in the description field.
>>>>> The CRAN and Bioconductor importers already do this.  See
>>>>> “beautify-description” in “guix/import/cran.scm”.
>>>> Hm, is it reliable?  Not all dots specify an end of a sentence: there
>>>> are things like "e.g.", "i.e.", "etc.".  Also there may be abbreviations
>>>> like "ATA S.M.A.R.T. reading and parsing library" (synopsis of
>>>> 'libatasmart' package).  Or even things like “<form> ... </form>”
>>>> (description of 'perl-html-form') — it should probably be wrapped in
>>>> @code{} by the way.
>>> It’s not supposed to be maintenance-free.  Descriptions often start with
>>> sentence fragments, which cannot be detected easily.  I found that
>>> “beautify-description” works well enough to make packaging R stuff much
>>> simpler for me.
>> I'd like to add this to the Ruby importer. Do you think it is a good
>> idea to make your beautify-description available in import/utils ?
> I think it could be generally useful to have something like that for all
> importers.  Do you want to prepare a patch?

Pretty straightforward stuff. The first patch moves beautify-description 
to import/utils and the second uses it in the rubygem importer. Any good?

ta,
ben