I'm doing the opposite. I agree that the docs should match the right style, but DrRacket is generally what we consider to the be the right style.
Robby On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Nick Shelley <nickmshel...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not sure I understand. Are you trying to change scribble to look more > like DrRacket's indenting? > > The background to my original question was that I started going through the > GUI docs at http://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/windowing-overview.html and > noticed when I typed it into DrRacket it wouldn't indent the same, so I > assumed that the docs had the correct style and I just didn't know how to > set it up in DrRacket. > > I guess my new question is, what is the best way to write OO code that uses > new and a bunch of bracketed arguments? For examples of what kind of code > I'm referring to, see the windowing docs I linked to above. > > As far as scribble mirroring DrRacket, I think in general it would be good > to have all the code in the docs represent the best style for that type of > code and then make sure DrRacket's defaults make that easy. Is that what > you're doing with this diff? > > Sorry if I completely misunderstood your response. > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> > wrote: >> >> I looked into this a little bit and with the diff below, it starts to >> get close to make the docs indent the way DrRacket does, but it looks >> like getting closer is going to be complicated because of the way the >> layout is set up and, I guess, that the layout is set up that way >> because that's the best compromise with the html/pdf backed that's >> been found. >> >> So I'm not really sure if the right thing is to try to lay out the >> table differently, or perhaps I'm missing something about the way the >> current things are set up that there is another simple tweak to do. >> >> In any case, the diff below makes the racket/draw canvas% docs's >> constructor line the first argument up under the "w" new "new", >> instead of under the "c" in "canvas%". The current setup seems to have >> the "new canvas%" all in a single cell in the canvas and judicious use >> of (hspace 1) doesn't seem to help. >> >> Robby >> >> diff --git a/collects/scribble/private/manual-proc.rkt >> b/collects/scribble/private/manual-proc.rkt >> index 5499aab..6780390 100644 >> --- a/collects/scribble/private/manual-proc.rkt >> +++ b/collects/scribble/private/manual-proc.rkt >> @@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ >> (list flow-spacer) >> (list flow-spacer flow-spacer >> flow-spacer flow-spacer))] >> - [one-ok? (tagged+arg-width . < . 60)]) >> + [one-ok? (and (not (eq? mode 'new)) (tagged+arg-width >> . < . 60))]) >> (list >> (make-table >> "prototype" >> >> >> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Nick Shelley <nickmshel...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > Punny, right? Anyway, I can't figure out how to get DrRacket to indent >> > like this: >> > >> > (define msg (new message% [parent frame] >> > [label "No events so far..."])) >> > >> > like it is in the docs. I've tried putting new in the begin-like, >> > define-like, and lambda-like sections of the preferences and none of them >> > do >> > it. I'm sure there's a simple solution that's in an obvious place in the >> > docs, but it's eluding me right now. (I at least looked in the most obvious >> > place that I could think of, which is the DrRacket preferences section, but >> > the entry on indenting wasn't very helpful for what I want to know: "This >> > panel controls which keywords DrRacket recognizes for indenting, and how >> > each keyword is treated.") >> > >> > ____________________ >> > Racket Users list: >> > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >> > > > ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
