Re: Gtk patch version 3, part 1

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Jan D. wrote:

> >     + @example
> >     + widget_class "GtkWindow.GtkVBox.GtkFixed.GtkVScrollbar" style 
> > "my_style"
> >     + @end example
> > 
> > That line is very long.  It might work ok if you use @smallexample
> > instead of @example.  Please do that for all the examples in the
> > section; inconsistency looks bad.
> > 
> > Can this be written as two lines?
> 
> It must be one line in the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file, so I would like to avoid
> changing it.

Any line in an @example that is longer than about 61 characters will 
trigger overfull hbox in TeX.  Any line in @smallexample that is longer 
than 64 characters will do the same.  So it's advisable to break long 
lines into two, even if they must be a single line in actual usage.  You 
can always say in a side note that the line must not be broken.