Re: Doc fixes and improvements - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Doc fixes and improvements
Date
Msg-id 28204.1283116891@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Doc fixes and improvements  (Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>)
Responses Re: Doc fixes and improvements  (Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>)
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Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> writes:
> On 29 August 2010 21:31, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Ummm ... this seems to be almost entirely pointless whitespace changes.
>> Sure you attached the right diff?

> Yes, the whitespace changes you're seeing are because I closed the
> <para> tag early, then re-opened it again for the next paragraph,
> which meant I reduced the indent for the content between them.  The
> paragraph is also closed again after, rather than containing
> everything after it, so I removed the excess closing paragraph tag and
> reduce the indentation of the affected sections.

> This is because of what is rendered on:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/functions-logical.html

> The sentence "SQL uses a three-valued boolean..." isn't contained in a
> paragraph at all and should be.  Otherwise it's free text in a div.

Uh ... it is too enclosed in a <para>.  What your changes seem to
accomplish is to take the <simplelist> and <informaltable> constructs
outside any <para>, but what is the point of that?  I don't see anything
obviously wrong with the rendering on the page you cite.

            regards, tom lane

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