Long lines in Docbook sources

[John J. McDonough]

On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 09:59 -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> How about an actual reply instead?
> 
> > Is this XML source layout the preferred style, or would it be considered
> > okay to wrap long lines as a separate change before making actual content
> > changes?
> >
> Certainly not preferred by me. :-) I generally set textwidth=80 when I
> work on the docs, just to keep the lines (and thus diffs) manageable,
> but it varies wildly. If you want to wrap the lines, I heartily
> endorse this.

I think the long lines do help a bit with the diffs, but to tell the
truth, I prefer shorter lines, sometimes, depending on the phase of the
moon, very short.  I suspect there is some editor somewhere that isn't
much affected by long lines, because they do appear a lot.

--McD