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  • From: flux <flux AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: SM-Discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] long description wrap in spells
  • Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:26:04 +0900

Bor Kraljič (pyrobor AT ver.si) wrote [11.10.14 20:08]:
> Hi!
>
> DISCUSSION:
> Do we merge devel-long_desc_fix into master?
>
> WORK IN A BRANCH:
> With some help of scripting I managed to check all spells if long
> description
> wrap is needed. For checking and fixing I used quill (both of things are
> done
> by quills function check_description_wrap). I pushed changes into devel-
> long_desc_fix branch.
>
> CHANGES IN A BRANCH:
> All changes in that branch are only about long description getting cut 80
> columns.
>
> COMMENT:
> I arranged my opinions in pro and con categories:
> pro:
> * on some tty you can only see 80 columns and this helps to see whole long
> description
>
> con:
> * large number of changes (commits)
> * some long descriptions are cut pretty ugly. some are nice... but that is
> scripted... Way to much spells to do it manually.
> * this is from some point of view not important, cosmetic change
>
> DEADLINE
> I hope we will decide. Otherwise I will call for a vote or something on
> january 1st 2012.
>
> Kind regards,
> Bor

Technically the discussion on this is a moot point, since we have an
explicitly stated requirement that the description in DETAILS be wrapped
to 80 characters:

"The description must be aligned to 80 characters (no line should exceed
80th character)." [1]

[1]: http://wiki.sourcemage.org/DETAILS

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