Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (251 mails)

[Karl Eichwalder <ke@xxxxxxx>]

The Web interface does not honor the "traditional" markup-less
formatting of the package descriptions.  Simply replacing every
\n with <br /> leads to strange results.

Instead, please replace \n\n with </p><p> (paragraph end and start,
iff a paragraph follows).  Another rule is, lines starting with *
are unordered list items.

Maybe, there are more rules.  Please, coordinate with the yast
developers.

I'm sorry about these ambiguities, but it is often hard to convince
developers to use a proper markup language...

----- Forwarded message from ke@xxxxxxx -----
    Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:43:33 +0200
    From: Karl Eichwalder <ke@xxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Karl Eichwalder <ke@xxxxxxx>
 Subject: Re: [yast-devel] Displaying Package Descriptions
      To: Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@xxxxxxx>
      Cc: Tim Serong <tserong@xxxxxxxxxx>, yast-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Karl Eichwalder <ke@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Sep 8 04:42 Tim Serong wrote (shortened):
> > >  # rpm -q --qf '%{DESCRIPTION}' $PACKAGE | sed \
> > >        -e 's/\&/\&amp;/g' \
> > >        -e 's/</\&lt;/g' \
> > >        -e 's/>/\&gt;/g' | awk \
> > >        'BEGIN { print "<pre>" } { print } END { print "</pre>" }'
>
> Thanks, but <pre> is a no-op.  These days, various PDAs with small
> displays are in use, and then, there is this ncurses yast interface...

BTW, the BS is also one of these "players" and it keeps line-breaks, but
uses a proportional font...  For example, see
https://build.opensuse.org/package/binary?arch=i586&filename=opensuse-manuals_en-11.3-31.1.noarch.rpm&package=opensuse-manuals_en&project=Documentation&repository=openSUSE_11.3

This is why formatted text without self-explaining markup sucks.

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Karl Eichwalder
R&D / Documentation

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