Re: Links: suggestion for Command Explanations

On Saturday, November 30th, 2024 at 17:33, Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2024-11-30 at 09:22 +0000, lfs wrote:
> 
> > As things stand, we have
> > 
> > Command Explanations
> > 
> > --enable-graphics: This switch enables support for graphics mode.
> > 
> > however, because that switch isn't visible in the list of commands,
> > which contain configure, make, and install commands, and where the
> > configure command doesn't have any other --enable or --disable
> > switches, it might be better to explicitly point out that it should
> > be applied to the configure command, so perhaps,
> > 
> > Command Explanations
> > 
> > --enable-graphics: Adding this switch to the configure command
> > enables support for graphics mode.
> 
> 
> No we are not going to do that.
> 
> We are already using different styling to distinguish these two kinds of
> switches. The switches already in the book instructions are in Italic
> style.
> 
> And in this case --enable-graphics is not in Italic style, so nothing is
> wrong here.


OK, so "teletype" style explicitly means "add to the configure command"?

Apologies for the noise: I have clearly missed that.

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