From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Texinfo in descriptions? Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 15:54:00 +0200 Message-ID: <87wpxryo7b.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wpy0nygt.fsf@gmail.com> <87y4ige2ux.fsf@openmailbox.org> <87wpy0t83c.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3o7pz3h.fsf@openmailbox.org> <87y4ietrdz.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <874mkx8a5o.fsf@openmailbox.org> <87wpxs9ux0.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9ov51j9.fsf@gnu.org> <20150722220825.GA8182@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59601) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZIGws-0006OG-Ln for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2015 09:54:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZIGwo-0000De-Nn for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2015 09:54:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20150722220825.GA8182@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Thu, 23 Jul 2015 00:08:25 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Alex Kost Andreas Enge skribis: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:24:10PM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >> With Benno being OK, we should start looking at implementing the change. > > Is there a consensus on the usefulness of the change? So far (but this may > be a classical case of confirmation bias) I noticed mainly voices against > the use of markup or at least with moderated enthusiasm. With my own bias ;-), I didn=E2=80=99t notice opposition to markup, but I= =E2=80=99m happy to (re)read arguments that I overlooked. But really, I expect that maybe 80% of the descriptions won=E2=80=99t conta= in any markup. I do not expect markup to become pervasive, though of course there=E2=80=99ll be a temptation to use @code instead of quotes in s= ome places, for instance (but I would reject a patch that replaces all quotes with @code, for example.) Ludo=E2=80=99.