[MPlayer-dev-eng] [DOCS]use emphasis tag instead of capital letters?
Diego Biurrun
diego at biurrun.de
Thu Oct 16 03:58:12 CEST 2003
œȻ <hephooey at fastmail.fm>(by way of œȻ <hephooey at fastmail.fm>) writes:
> On Tuesday 14 October 2003 10:10, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > also some other questions:
> > >
> > > 1. sometimes MPlayer is used with <application> tags, sometimes not, and
> > > sometimes we use mplayer, is there any rule about which should be used
> > > in different place?
> >
> > MPlayer is the name of the project, mplayer is the name of the
> > compiled executable. So you would say
> >
> > "MPlayer supports many different video out drivers."
> >
> > but
> >
> > "Run 'mplayer -vo help' to see which ones you have."
> >
> > I'm undecided about the <application> tags. In the past we removed
> > all <B> HTML tags around MPlayer because many were forgotten anyway.
> > OTOH it's always a good idea to add quite a lot of semantic markup..
> > Anyway, we should be consistent and either add or remove them
> > everywhere. Opinions?
>
> mplayer is only for binary file? Ok, you'll receive a patch about history.xml
> soon :) cause there is a "mplayer project" in it. I think I should not use
> <application> there since there are too many MPlayers.
Feel free to commit these kinds of changes directly, but never mind,
this one is fixed.
> IMHO use <application> around MPlayer looks some kind of cool ;) My question
> is when we talk about MPlayer's web page ,MPlayer's ftp or mplayer font pkg
> etc, should we use the <application> tag or not. If we can make some rule
> about this, I think use <application> is ok.
Nah, using <application> only in some places is bad, so let's just
settle on plain MPlayer without tags.
Diego
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