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Subject:Re: Code screens From:Joe Miller <joemiller -at- CANBERRA -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:20:09 -0500
Hey, John!
>do you treat it [code] as a list or a graphic?
Since we use half-size (5.5 X 8.5) manuals for PC software,
code not only crosses page boundaries, one line of code
will often not fit on a single printed line. The code therefore
must often break across lines and pages.
The "official" (programmer's) way of breaking a single line of
code is to indent the continued line to show it isn't a new line,
like so:
