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Subject:Re: code examples in a document From:"Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:23:16 -0500
John,
Most languages have conventions for handling continuation lines. Break long lines according to that convention (check with a programmer if in doubt), in a way to allows you to avoid landscape pages and to present all code samples in a consistent format.
Dick
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From: John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>
Reply-To: John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:04:22 -0500
>
>For those who place code in their document, how do you handle code lines
>that are so long that they wrap in the document. I have script codes that I
>need to include in one of my sections...all in all, about 75 lines of code.
>
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