[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: doctest and @example blocks without an actual cope and paste example
|
From: |
Mike Miller |
|
Subject: |
Re: doctest and @example blocks without an actual cope and paste example |
|
Date: |
Thu, 9 Jul 2015 09:46:15 -0400 |
|
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 14:33:19 +0100, Carnë Draug wrote:
> doctest extracts code from @example blocks. However, @example is also used
> to display definitions as in the following case from imbothat [1]:
[…]
> Point is, despite the name, @example is not being used only for examples.
> Am I using TexInfo incorrectly? What would be the best way to do this?
It's also used throughout Octave to display math formulas in ASCII art
format:
https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Special-Functions.html#XREFerf
--
mike