Line length limit suggestion in the FDP primer
Giorgos Keramidas
keramida at freebsd.org
Sun Nov 7 22:30:41 UTC 2004
The style guide of the FDP primer mentions using 70-column lines. IMHO, this
is too short, as I mentioned to a personal email exchange with Tillman Hodgson
a few days back. A line length of 78 columns is probably ok these days (I
usually run terminals much wider, but I don't have a problem with keeping this
under the 80-column limit).
Any objections against the following patch (submitted by Tillman)?
: Index: writing-style/chapter.sgml
: ===================================================================
: RCS file: /exports/doc/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.sgml,v
: retrieving revision 1.40
: diff -u -r1.40 chapter.sgml
: --- writing-style/chapter.sgml 22 Sep 2004 18:04:52 -0000 1.40
: +++ writing-style/chapter.sgml 4 Nov 2004 21:53:09 -0000
: @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@
:
: <programlisting>augroup sgmledit
: autocmd FileType sgml set formatoptions=cq2l " Special formatting options
: - autocmd FileType sgml set textwidth=70 " Wrap lines at 70 spaces
: + autocmd FileType sgml set textwidth=78 " Wrap lines at 78 columns
: autocmd FileType sgml set shiftwidth=2 " Automatically indent
: autocmd FileType sgml set softtabstop=2 " Tab key indents 2 spaces
: autocmd FileType sgml set tabstop=8 " Replace 8 spaces with a tab
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