On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote:
> On 07/28/2010 05:48 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Friedrich Romstedt
>> <friedrichromst...@gmail.com <mailto:friedrichromst...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> 2010/7/26 Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu <mailto:ben.r...@ou.edu>>:
>>
>> > After some reading of sphinx documentation, it appears to be a
>> bug with
>> > sphinx (or actually, "smartypants") because it should not be
>> doing this sort
>> > of interpretation within a docstring. Anyway, supposedly the
>> workaround is
>> > to put double backticks around the part that needs to be treated
>> literally:
>> > ``'--'``. I tried this out and built the docs locally and it
>> works... sort
>> > of. The text that is surrounded by double backticks are getting
>> a different
>> > background color. This doesn't look great to me. Maybe someone
>> else has a
>> > thought?
>>
>> How looks a backticked empty string like? If it is just nothing, it
>> could be used in between of the two hyphens, to separate them by
>> "nothing". Still very hackish ... But it's just like LaTeX -{}-.
>>
>> Friedrich
>>
>>
>> Actually, I just took another look at the documentation and realized
>> that the docstring for set_linestyle() was inconsistent with the docs
>> for plot(). plot() have been using the backticks for a while now, so if
>> we just use the double-backticks for all the values in set_linestyle()
>> it would be consistent and look much better than it is now.
>>
>> I can make these changes and commit them to the trunk and the release
>> branch, if that is ok.
>>
>
> Ben,
>
> Sounds reasonable--go ahead.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Eric
>
Done in r8593 and r8594
Ben Root
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