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@suse.de ----- Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:43:33 +0200 From: Karl Eichwalder Reply-To: Karl Eichwalder Subject: Re: [yast-devel] Displaying Package Descriptions To: Johannes Meixner Cc: Tim Serong , yast-devel@opensuse.org Karl Eichwalder writes:

Johannes Meixner writes:

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On Sep 8 04:42 Tim Serong wrote (shortened):

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# rpm -q --qf '%{DESCRIPTION}' $PACKAGE | sed \ -e 's/\&/\&/g' \ -e 's//\>/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. -- Karl Eichwalder R&D / Documentation SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org ----- End forwarded message ----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org