From: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra (rms@1407.org)
Date: Thu May 09 2002 - 11:21:21 EDT
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 16:07, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 11:03, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> > Well, some staff at the FSF actually use AbiWord, according to Bradley
> > Kuhn, so that's why I missed the joke (although probably not Richard,
> > lest he wants to convert a damned (proprietary) document into a Free
> > format), sorry! :)
>
> And if I remember properly, he wants us to ignore the proper semantics
> of xml:space so that he can hand-edit his documents in emacs with hard
> line-wrapping automatically set to 80 chars. Allegedly he even bought
> HippieTrail lunch to talk this over...
I think you're remembering improperly :)
We do not use xml:space, so whitespace should be completely irrelevant.
He could _never_ tell us to ignore the proper semantics of xml:space,
because that would not be right, and since I've yet to see a :space in
any tag we're wrinting in documents, which means that white space should
be irrelevant.
Also, the problem was related, IIRC to the way we do (or did?) line
breaks and paragraph breaks.
I think there are more important things to do yet, though.
Also, I do not think he bought Andrew's lunch (in fact, lunches would be
more appropriate since it was 18EUR for three meals at GUADEC) just to
talk this over :)
Hugs, rms
-- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...?
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