Re: code example wrapping

On mån, 2010-04-05 at 18:30 +0200, Erik Rijkers wrote:
> On Mon, April 5, 2010 18:18, Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Erik Rijkers" <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl> 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.