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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Daniel Shahaf <da...@apache.org> on 2012/01/11 17:39:10 UTC

Re: svn commit: r1230127 - /subversion/site/publish/mailing-lists.html

danielsh@apache.org wrote on Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 16:21:02 -0000:
> Author: danielsh
> Date: Wed Jan 11 16:21:02 2012
> New Revision: 1230127
> 
> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1230127&view=rev
> Log:
> * mailing-lists.html: use a non-breaking hyphen
> 
> Modified:
>     subversion/site/publish/mailing-lists.html
> 
> Modified: subversion/site/publish/mailing-lists.html
> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/site/publish/mailing-lists.html?rev=1230127&r1=1230126&r2=1230127&view=diff
> ==============================================================================
> --- subversion/site/publish/mailing-lists.html (original)
> +++ subversion/site/publish/mailing-lists.html Wed Jan 11 16:21:02 2012
> @@ -364,7 +364,8 @@
>  </h2>
>  
>  <p>To subscribe to the lists above, simply send email
> -   to <em>LISTNAME</em>-subscribe@subversion.apache.org
> +   <! -- U+2011 NON-BREAKING HYPHEN.  TODO: used a named entity. -->
> +   to <em>LISTNAME</em>&#8209;subscribe@subversion.apache.org

Okay -- that seems to work, but it breaks searching the page for
"LISTNAME-".  Does anyone know a better way to do this?

Re: svn commit: r1230127 - /subversion/site/publish/mailing-lists.html

Posted by Daniel Shahaf <d....@daniel.shahaf.name>.
Julian Foad wrote on Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 16:52:37 +0000:
> Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> 
> >>  Log:
> >>  * mailing-lists.html: use a non-breaking hyphen
> >> 
> >>   <p>To subscribe to the lists above, simply send email
> >>  -   to <em>LISTNAME</em>-subscribe@subversion.apache.org
> >>  +   <! -- U+2011 NON-BREAKING HYPHEN.  TODO: used a named entity. -->
> >>  +   to <em>LISTNAME</em>‑subscribe@subversion.apache.org
> > 
> > Okay -- that seems to work, but it breaks searching the page for
> > "LISTNAME-".
> 
> Worse, it breaks copy-and-paste from screen to MUA, in an almost impossible-to-figure-out way.  Eugh.
> 
> > Does anyone know a better way to do this?
> 
> From <http://www.toxicdrums.com/html-stop-line-break.html>:
> 
> Style:
>   .my-nowrap {white-space: nowrap;}
> 
> Then, HTML:
>   <span class="my-nowrap"><em>LISTNAME</em>-...</span>

Thanks --- implemented r1230153 after Bert suggested it on IRC.

> 
> - Julian

Re: svn commit: r1230127 - /subversion/site/publish/mailing-lists.html

Posted by Daniel Shahaf <d....@daniel.shahaf.name>.
Julian Foad wrote on Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 16:52:37 +0000:
> Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> 
> >>  Log:
> >>  * mailing-lists.html: use a non-breaking hyphen
> >> 
> >>   <p>To subscribe to the lists above, simply send email
> >>  -   to <em>LISTNAME</em>-subscribe@subversion.apache.org
> >>  +   <! -- U+2011 NON-BREAKING HYPHEN.  TODO: used a named entity. -->
> >>  +   to <em>LISTNAME</em>‑subscribe@subversion.apache.org
> > 
> > Okay -- that seems to work, but it breaks searching the page for
> > "LISTNAME-".
> 
> Worse, it breaks copy-and-paste from screen to MUA, in an almost impossible-to-figure-out way.  Eugh.
> 
> > Does anyone know a better way to do this?
> 
> From <http://www.toxicdrums.com/html-stop-line-break.html>:
> 
> Style:
>   .my-nowrap {white-space: nowrap;}
> 
> Then, HTML:
>   <span class="my-nowrap"><em>LISTNAME</em>-...</span>

Thanks --- implemented r1230153 after Bert suggested it on IRC.

> 
> - Julian

Re: svn commit: r1230127 - /subversion/site/publish/mailing-lists.html

Posted by Julian Foad <ju...@btopenworld.com>.
Daniel Shahaf wrote:

>>  Log:
>>  * mailing-lists.html: use a non-breaking hyphen
>> 
>>   <p>To subscribe to the lists above, simply send email
>>  -   to <em>LISTNAME</em>-subscribe@subversion.apache.org
>>  +   <! -- U+2011 NON-BREAKING HYPHEN.  TODO: used a named entity. -->
>>  +   to <em>LISTNAME</em>‑subscribe@subversion.apache.org
> 
> Okay -- that seems to work, but it breaks searching the page for
> "LISTNAME-".

Worse, it breaks copy-and-paste from screen to MUA, in an almost impossible-to-figure-out way.  Eugh.

> Does anyone know a better way to do this?

From <http://www.toxicdrums.com/html-stop-line-break.html>:

Style:
  .my-nowrap {white-space: nowrap;}

Then, HTML:
  <span class="my-nowrap"><em>LISTNAME</em>-...</span>

- Julian

Re: svn commit: r1230127 - /subversion/site/publish/mailing-lists.html

Posted by Julian Foad <ju...@btopenworld.com>.
Daniel Shahaf wrote:

>>  Log:
>>  * mailing-lists.html: use a non-breaking hyphen
>> 
>>   <p>To subscribe to the lists above, simply send email
>>  -   to <em>LISTNAME</em>-subscribe@subversion.apache.org
>>  +   <! -- U+2011 NON-BREAKING HYPHEN.  TODO: used a named entity. -->
>>  +   to <em>LISTNAME</em>‑subscribe@subversion.apache.org
> 
> Okay -- that seems to work, but it breaks searching the page for
> "LISTNAME-".

Worse, it breaks copy-and-paste from screen to MUA, in an almost impossible-to-figure-out way.  Eugh.

> Does anyone know a better way to do this?

From <http://www.toxicdrums.com/html-stop-line-break.html>:

Style:
  .my-nowrap {white-space: nowrap;}

Then, HTML:
  <span class="my-nowrap"><em>LISTNAME</em>-...</span>

- Julian