Re: Code formatter

[Carl Sorensen]

On 11/13/09 4:36 PM, "Neil Puttock" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 2009/11/13 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> 
>> Would it be worth adapting _ as an alternative to spaces inside
>> illustrations inside comments, just to avoid this problem?
>> Stating that the code style is "whatever emacs does, as long as
>> you manually revert its formatting in areas X Y and Z" is getting
>> really iffy.
> 
> It appears to be OK so long as there's no space at the start of any
> line inside the comment; for example, in lookup.cc, there's a fine
> ascii art figure for round_filled_box (), which uses an asterisk on
> each line to prevent the reformatting.

OK, so we could add this to the section on Comments in the CG.

Thanks,

Carl