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Re: Documentation - long lines
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Documentation - long lines |
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Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:42:09 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:
> When writing some docs (e.g. the CG concerning make) it's inevitable
> that the line will be too long to fit on a single line in the doc.
> This can be helped a bit by setting the font smaller, but in the end
> we'd have to break the line. My question: is there a standard way of
> showing this? If not -
> can we define one?
You can just break the line in the same way you could break it in the
application itself. Regarding Makefile rules, a backslash at the end of
the preceding line usually does the trick.
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David Kastrup