On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Rolf Turner wrote:
>
>
> Thanks to David James and to Phil Spector who answered my question as
> to how to get verbatim displays in documentation files.
>
> David James suggested
>
> .Cs
> (material to be displayed)
> .Ce
>
> and Phil Spector suggested
>
> .nf
> (material to be displayed)
> .if
>
> (low-level troff/nroff) adding
>
> > but I'm not sure if it's the "sanctioned" way of doing a verbatim display
> > in an Splus documentation file.
Can I ask that people do not use arbitrary low-level troff/nroff
constructs in help files (including this one)? Those of us converting to
Windows have enough to cope with, and at some point in the not too distant
future (I hope) MathSoft will have a new help format for S-PLUS 5 rather
than relying on nroff-based files. In each case the conversion utilities
are likely to accept only documented constructs. (.Cs/.Ce is documented.)
--
Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
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