Regarding AsciiDoctor and long lines

[Sergio Carlavilla]

On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 at 13:45, Marc Fonvieille <blackend at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Le 10.02.2021 17:03, Daniel Ebdrup Jensen a écrit :
> > Yeah, I'm perfectly fine with doing it like how manual pages work, ie.
> > the one-sentence-per-line workflow, if I understand it.
> >
>
> One sentence per line makes the read of diff/commit logs really
> difficult.  I gave up reading the commit logs because of that.
> It's really a pain to find what changed without even talking about the
> edition of a long non-wrapped line in an editor.
> Some languages are very verbose, so we would end with very long lines.
> For a such change seems so backward.
>
> > I'll be re-working the handbook/x11 chapter to that at some point. :)
> >
>
> Please don't.
>
> --
> Marc
>
Hi,

I know that this approach it’s causing some confusion with the diffs tools.
But instead of using a different way that recommended from the AsciiDoctor
team I think we should try to focus on getting a solution in the diff tools.

Maybe we can talk with the AsciiDoctor team.

Bye.