[Rd] some problems reported in 00check.log

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, carol white wrote:

> So there is no sort of automatic way like using a markup command for the susceptible fields instead of splitting manually a line on different lines?

Well, how is the automatic command to know how to do this?  As you 
will see from the autmatic wrapping in e.g. deparse(), we are not able 
to do a very good job.

There has been some talk about doing this automatically as a backstop, 
but I don't know the current state: in any case it does not happen in 
released versions of R.

> True that this doesn't happen in Arguments field (I confused with 
> Format field).
>
> Also true that the codes used in Usage, Examples etc are in 
> courrier. Is there any way to reduce the size and not to change the 
> font of character for these fields?

You can change Rd.sty, which already contains options for using 
other fontsets.

>
> Best,
>
> Carol
>
> --- On Wed, 9/22/10, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
>> Subject: Re: [Rd] some problems reported in 00check.log
>> To: "carol white" <wht_crl at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: "Uwe Ligges" <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>, r-devel at r-project.org
>> Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 2:15 AM
>> On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, carol white
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you very much Uwe. It works now.
>>>
>>> I have a question about pdf formating in pdf manual
>> file:
>>>
>>> How to format the long lines which go to the margin?
>> For ex, this happens in Usage field if a function has many
>> arguments. Also, it happens in examples or Arugment sections
>> when the lines are long.
>>
>> Correct the sources by re-formatting over-long lines
>> yourself.  (This should only happen in verbatim-like
>> sections, hence unlikely to happen in \argument{}.)
>>
>> One of the things we suggest when checking a package is to
>> read through the PDF manual, and this is one of the problems
>> to look out for.  (Note that it does depend on the
>> fonts used for the PDF, but the default Courier for
>> monospaced text is somewhat wide.)
>>
>> -- Brian D. Ripley,         
>>         ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>> University of Oxford,         
>>    Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
>> 1 South Parks Road,         
>>            +44 1865
>> 272866 (PA)
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-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595