Re: Ch. Ruby-3.4.5: use double quotes to delimit the test-suite-message

On 7/22/25 7:41 AM, Xi Ruoyao ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-07-22 at 12:34 +0200, Rainer Fiebig wrote:
>> In order to improve readability, I think that double quotes should be
>> used to delimit the test-suite-message in this sentence:
>>
>> [...] will bail out early with messages like net/ftp is not found.
>>
>> This would be better (IMO):
>>
>> [...] will bail out early with messages like "net/ftp is not found".
> 
> The problem with quote here is per the American English grammar the
> punctuation should be inside the quote, but the computer doesn't
> actually output a punctuation.
> 
> So here we use <computeroutput> which should be rendered in a different
> style than the normal texts.  If your browser fails to render them in
> different styles it's either buggy or misconfigured.  Even Lynx uses
> different colors.

That's true.  In Firefox, it renders as monospace, but perhaps we could do more by 
changing the color with css.  The html has

<code class="computeroutput">net/ftp is not found</code>.

The css has

/* Monospaced elements */
tt, code, kbd, pre, .command {
   font-family: monospace;
}

code.systemitem {
   font-weight: bold;
=========
Perhaps instead of double quotes we could add something like:

code.computeroutput {
   color: blue;
}

What do you think?

   -- Bruce

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