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Re: @verbatiminclude inside @smallformat


From: Stepan Kasal
Subject: Re: @verbatiminclude inside @smallformat
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 08:24:52 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.4.1i

Hello,

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 05:20:45PM -0400, Karl Berry wrote:
> 
>             "defines \nonarrowing to inhibit narrowing at next level down."
>     My knowledge of English betrays me here.  "next level down" means
>     "the next level", or "all levels below?"
> 
> Well, the text as written would mean "the next level", but I'm not sure
> the comment was written with such a precise meaning in mind.

Implemented and committed, patch attached to this mail.
 
> I guess I can imagine @cartouche being used like this, though I'm not
> sure it ever has been in actual practice:
> 
> @cartouche
> Here is some descriptive text we've boxed off in a display.
> 
> @example
> x = y + z;  # some code inside the display
> @end example
> 
> Some more text after the code.
> 
> @end cartouche
> 
> In this case, the embedded example should presumably be indented
> relative to the descriptive text.

It's arguable.  If the surrounding text is short, it might be better to
have the example without any indentation.

> Can you try it out?  (I hate @cartouche. :)

No.  Let's wait for a bug report.  ;-)

Have a nice day,
        Stepan

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