Subject: Re: HTML help files
From: sam th (sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu)
Date: Thu May 18 2000 - 20:34:50 CDT
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On Thu, 18 May 2000, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> >see abiword/new_matrix for the file (it looks exactly the same) after
> >tidy. It works just fine. (Actually, I had to fix a typo in the file
> >first)
>
> You have totally destroyed the columnation. Do not replace the file with the
> "tidied" version. Make the changes in a *plain text editor* which can handle
> long lines.
>
> When I put the LaTeX test results in that file, I greatly appreciated the fact
> that every cell in a column (except the column head) was the same width. Kwrite
> has a column block option which was very useful for making new columns. Please
> don't make it difficult for the next guy who has to edit this file.
Well, I personally wouldn't want to edit that file in a text editor
anyway. But I wasn't originally suggesting changing files on the AbiWord
site, just in the distribution. And since people like that file the way
it is (I think it's impossible to edit) I don't have a problem with that.
sam th
sam@uchicago.edu
http://sam.rh.uchicago.edu
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