Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2000/10/04/08:24:23
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Richard Dawe wrote:
> > There's no automatic line breaks inside @example. So breaking long
> > lines by hand is a Good Thing.
>
> I've written a Perl script to detect when @example/@end example and
> @smallexample/@end smallexample sections exceed their respective maximum
> line lengths (72 and 74 from a previous mail of yours). The script is
> attached.
Thanks.
DJ, should we add this to djlsrNNN.zip? Or at least introduce it into
CVS, along with the other scripts used when making the distro?
> I didn't change @example -> @smallexample, but I did fix the overly long
> lines. A large (~55K) diff is attached.
Thanks again.
> > Alternatively, we could change mkdoc.cc to do that automatically for us;
> > but I'm not sure how ugly will the automatic line breaks look.
>
> I don't think that would be a very pretty option. My script is quick to
> run, so we can check frequently/before release if anything is broken.
I'm worried that any operation prior to release that must be done
manually, might be forgotten. It happened to me before; it can happen
again to others as well.
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