svn commit: r307951 - head/sysutils/sleuthkit

[Emanuel Haupt]

Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 01:01:47PM +0100, Emanuel Haupt wrote:
> > Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > > 76 in some case if formatting looks better (more even at the right
> > > edge), previous version complied to this as well.  Now 'Mac' in
> > > the line 7 touches the screen edge; the whole right edge is
> > > uneven.  You still thing it looks better, seriously?
> > 
> > To me yes. The terminals xterm, rxvt, aterm, eterm all have a 80
> > character width:
> 
> Yes, my point is that with 80-char width xterm, wrapping should be
> done 2-4 chars earlier.  It gives clear indication of a line break
> (vs. automatic wrapping that went unnoticed), 2-4 char buffer allows
> to tweak the text to make the right margin less ragged and eye
> appealing, and reduces the chance of reformatting when small
> (typically one-character) adjustment must be done in that line.  In
> your case, line that touches right boundary (i.e. 80 char line) is
> vulnerable to all these bugs.
> 
> > > Correct, because justified spacing normally does look ugly with
> > > monospaced fonts.  Double spacing (at the sentence breaks), on the
> > > contrary, makes it look better.  Please reconsider.  I put a lot
> > > of
> > 
> > Again: "your opinion"
> 
> No, this is more that just that.  You might want to google for some
> researches that had been carried out over the times WRT this issue.
> Wikipedia [1] should give you a good start:
> 
>   ``It was felt that with the monospaced font used by a typewriter,
> "a single word space ... was not wide enough to create a sufficient
> space between sentences" and that extra space might help signal the
> end of a sentence, rather than use of a mid-sentence abbreviation.''
> 
> It still applies to us since we're all are using monospaced fonts in
> our terminals.
> 
> > > thought into our port descriptions and it's really sad to see my
> > > work destroyed.
> > 
> > FreeBSD is a large project with > 400 committers and many more
> > highly motivated active contributors. I would suggest you get
> > familiar with the concept of people having different opinions.
> > Accusing others of not caring or destroying "your work" (really?
> > please...) is just ridiculous.
> 
> I merely said I've put a lot of work into port description,
> particularly this one.  I've tried to back up my views with
> reasonable, verifiable (and arguable) facts and references, getting
> only Lebowski quotes back from you, yet I'm being told to get my act
> together about collaborative work.  I'm really sorry to hear that
> from you Emanuel.
> 
> ./danfe
> 
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing

Please let's take this off list.

Emanuel