[gentoo-pms] More compact EAPI tables?

[gentoo-pms] More compact EAPI tables?

[Ulrich Mueller]

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There are many of them, and they have grown 7 rows. How about
compacting them a little, by combining rows with identical behaviour?

For example, "Table 11.8: Banned commands" currently looks like this:

   --------------------------------
   EAPI        Command banned?
          dohard   dosed   einstall
   --------------------------------
   0      No       No      No
   1      No       No      No
   2      No       No      No
   3      No       No      No
   4      Yes      Yes     No
   5      Yes      Yes     No
   6      Yes      Yes     Yes
   --------------------------------

This could be changed to:

   --------------------------------------
   EAPI              Command banned?
                dohard   dosed   einstall
   --------------------------------------
   0, 1, 2, 3   No       No      No
   4, 5         Yes      Yes     No
   6            Yes      Yes     Yes
   --------------------------------------

At the same time, I would drop usage of the teletype font for EAPI
names, because this isn't handled consistently anyway.

Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-pms] More compact EAPI tables?

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 16:28:01 +0100
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> There are many of them, and they have grown 7 rows. How about
> compacting them a little, by combining rows with identical behaviour?

Yes. There's a lot that can be done on formatting. It wasn't a big deal
when we only had a couple of EAPIs, but now it is.

> At the same time, I would drop usage of the teletype font for EAPI
> names, because this isn't handled consistently anyway.

I've gone off teletype in general after I figured out why text in math
mode looked wrong... (The answer is to use \mathit{}.)

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-pms] More compact EAPI tables?

[Ulrich Mueller]

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>>>>> On Mon, 16 Feb 2015, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 16:28:01 +0100
> Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> There are many of them, and they have grown 7 rows. How about
>> compacting them a little, by combining rows with identical
>> behaviour?

> Yes. There's a lot that can be done on formatting. It wasn't a big
> deal when we only had a couple of EAPIs, but now it is.

I have pushed this commit to the eapi-6 branch:
http://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/pms.git/commit/?h=eapi-6&id=755c5054fa94144c13f607b04224ffe69bc226cb

Compacting the tables has shortened the PDF output by 5 pages.

Ulrich

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