Re: Javadoc Comment Formatting

2002-04-28 Thread Nic Ferrier
I'm not sure this should be discussed here but... Julian Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now the Classpath comments do sometimes contain stuff like /** * ... maintained by [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ... */ and /** * ... for example, * pre * if (a

Re: Javadoc Comment Formatting

2002-04-28 Thread Julian Scheid
Nic Ferrier wrote: I do agree that XML is the way forward (docbook might make a good replacement for texinfo when it has widespread support like texinfo) but the issue of in-source readable comments will need to be solved before it is a really practical option. It seems to boil down to

Re: Javadoc Comment Formatting

2002-04-28 Thread Julian Scheid
Nic Ferrier wrote: But none of that is really important. The bottom line is: you will never get all the authors of source code to write well-formed XHTML, you're always going to miss something. That's why it sucks. OK if this is the problem, let me put it that way: If we _aim_ towards

Re: Javadoc Comment Formatting

2002-04-28 Thread Eric Blake
I am not opposed to doing better markup of comments in my code. As I write doc comments, I have been trying to make formatted lists correctly, use lt; instead of , and other things; but I do not always get it correct. Further, I have not tested my documentation work by running it through any

Re: Javadoc Comment Formatting

2002-04-28 Thread Brian Jones
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I agree with the sentiment that the final output is worth the reduced readability in the source code, but I am willing to go with the majority on this decision, whichever way it gets decided. The tool will probably dictate the matter. Brian -- Brian