docs/85928: [patch] typo in ftp-primer (en_US.ISO8859-1)

Mon Sep 12 14:00:36 UTC 2005

The following reply was made to PR docs/85928; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Yar Tikhiy <yar at comp.chem.msu.su>
To: Pierre Riteau <kineox at gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/85928: [patch] typo in ftp-primer (en_US.ISO8859-1)
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:58:51 +0400

 On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 02:42:40PM +0200, Pierre Riteau wrote:
 > 2005/9/12, Yar Tikhiy <yar at comp.chem.msu.su>:
 > > You seem to be missing the whole point.  It is an _example_ of raw
 > > HTML source to show to the reader of fdp-primer.
 > 
 > Oh, now I get it. I was totally misunderstanding the purpose of this
 > example. The fact that it was not easy to read made me think that it
 > was a mistake. So the french documents is right too. I'm so sorry...
 > 
 > Thank you for explaining me clearly why I was totally wrong, and I'm
 > sorry I wasted your time so much.

 Never mind, recursive examples of markup can be really tough to grok :-)

 > > P.S. I'd rather kill the sentence saying, "Note that the <p> element
 > > is not required in the single paragraph case."  First, it is a bogus
 > > statement in the presence of CSS.  Second, we'll have nothing to argue
 > > over then ;-)
 > 
 > I'm far from being an expert in HTML/CSS, I want to be sure I am
 > understanding well. What do you mean by "style elements implicitly
 > associated with the <p> tag" ?

I mean the following. AFAIK, it is possible with CSS to specify
 that ordinary <body> text will be, say, Times New Roman 12pt single
 spaced while any text will be Helvetica 14pt double spaced. In
 fact, if you specify any properties for text with CSS, there
 will be a great chance of them different from the default properties
 of ordinary <body> text.

By "implicitly" (perhaps a poorly chosen word) I meant that you
 write "something" just to get a new paragraph, but get a different
 style for the text unexpectedly if you don't control the CSS. And
 vice versa, you may need to always use if the CSS defines finer
 style for text, but leaves ordinary text at its defaults.

 -- 
 Yar