[CHANGESET] line width in code examples

David Bateman David.Bateman at motorola.com
Thu Nov 27 03:44:15 CST 2008


Thorsten Meyer wrote:
> Jaroslav Hajek wrote: [in Re: minor correction in container.txi, first 
> contribution]
>>
>>> A question regarding formatting of examples:
>>> Is there a rule for the maximum line length of examples? If not I
>>> would suggest introducing one that makes sure that an example line
>>> fits on one line in all of the pdf and ps documents.
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> A good idea. I think that a vague recommendation "keep your example
>> code lines short enough to fit on pages in pdf and ps" should be
>> enough; feel free to add it. If you think a fixed width should be
>> prescribed, I suggest you start discussion in a new thread
> Here is a changeset to add such a recommendation to contrib.txi. I 
> also added a little
> text ruler to help the documentation author to find the appropriate 
> line width.
>
> Thorsten
>
>
Applied

Thanks
D.

-- 
David Bateman                                David.Bateman at motorola.com
Motorola Labs - Paris                        +33 1 69 35 48 04 (Ph) 
Parc Les Algorithmes, Commune de St Aubin    +33 6 72 01 06 33 (Mob) 
91193 Gif-Sur-Yvette FRANCE                  +33 1 69 35 77 01 (Fax) 

The information contained in this communication has been classified as: 

[x] General Business Information 
[ ] Motorola Internal Use Only 
[ ] Motorola Confidential Proprietary



More information about the Octave-maintainers mailing list