[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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