Re: [CHANGESET] line width in code examples

[David Bateman]

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.

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