[tz] Simplification and unification of scheme:// anchors

[Ian Abbott]

On 2013-01-30 11:28, Steffen Daode Nurpmeso wrote:
> Ian Abbott <abbotti at mev.co.uk> wrote:
>   |While on the subject, the backslash escapes at the ends of the lines
>   |with a <URL> with a parenthesised comment on the following line is kind
>   |of ugly.  I'm sure it must be possible to re-work your script to avoid
>   |the need for that.  (I.e. if a line ends with a <URL> plus optional
>   |whitespace, check if the following line starts with optional whitespace
>   |plus parenthesised link text.)
>
> Hmm.
> So i've reworked the (Pod-less) script to support multiple follow
> lines in the middle of nowhere, and changed the two links from
> which i remembered that it did matter.
>
> This updated version also fixes the "trailing empty line after
> rules are included in data boxes" issue.
> And it uses normal text paragraphs for the comment text, forcing
> newline breaks via <br />, instead of using preformatted text for
> that, which makes it even nicer, since some of the dramatically
> long links will now be wrapped by browsers.

Self closing tags such as <br /> are only legal in xhtml, not plain 
html, so you'll need to output a XML declaration and a DOCTYPE in your 
script.

> diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica
> index 6aaf665..46cfaa9 100644
> --- a/northamerica
> +++ b/northamerica
> @@ -59,7 +59,8 @@
>   #
>   # For more about the first ten years of DST in the United States, see
>   # Robert Garland's <http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/dst.html> \
> -# (``Ten years of daylight saving from the Pittsburgh standpoint'', Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1927).
> +# (``Ten years of daylight saving from the Pittsburgh standpoint'', \
> +# Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1927).

It would still be great to get rid of the backslash line continuations 
and modify the script to work without them.

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