On mån, 2010-04-05 at 18:30 +0200, Erik Rijkers wrote:
> On Mon, April 5, 2010 18:18, Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Erik Rijkers" <[email protected]> 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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