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Small typo in Emacs manual (frame parameters)

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From: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 37324 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37324: Small typo in Emacs manual (frame parameters)
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2019 21:14:31 +0200

>> In Emacs manual INFO 21.11 Frame Parameters
>> - (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(width  . 90))
>> + (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(width . 90))
>> (...)
>> I think there is one unnecessary "space".
>
> That's on purpose: the example tries to align this line with the
> next.

Ok, so I'm guessing that the number of spaces - in this example -
before and after the dot is insignificant from perspective of the code
(well, perhaps 1 is needed).  But... is changing the insides of the
code example just to align it to the next line is reasonable?  If
everywhere (I think) there is PARAMETER-ONE_SPACE-DOT-ONE_SPACE-VALUE
perhaps it would be better to stick to that, because otherwise someone
may think that there is an error in the code example.

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