From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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To: | Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: code example wrapping |
Date: | 2010-04-05 17:29:31 |
Message-ID: | 1270488571.18421.6.camel@vanquo.pezone.net |
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On mån, 2010-04-05 at 18:30 +0200, Erik Rijkers wrote:
> On Mon, April 5, 2010 18:18, Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Erik Rijkers" <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl> writes:
> >> The manual has quite a few cases in the code-examples where, in the pdf version, there isn't
> >> enough width to show the whole line. Unfortunately, the rest of the line is then simply cut
> >> off,
> >> making the example 'invalid' (while reading, but also for copy-paste).
> >
> >> I would like to reformat (only) those cases so that the text is completely readable on the pdf
> >> page.
>
> > Exactly what width do you intend to wrap to, and how did you arrive at
> > the number?
> >
>
> I want to manually reformat, rather than automatically wrap to some fixed width.
>
> The width would be determined by readability of the .pdf versions (-A4, -US). Maybe I should
> check other formats at the same time?
>
> It looks like less than 60 or 80 would already solve most of the problem-cases. Obviously, the
> actual split should be determined by the syntax of the example.
Sure, makes sense. Lines much longer than 60-80 characters are probably
not too readable in any format.
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