[Rd] ASCII art in function documentation?

[Rainer M Krug]

Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee at gmail.com> writes:

> Untested, but did you try wrapping the whole thing in a single code block:

Nope - also in one line.

Rainer

>
> \code{
> all
> the
> things
> }
>
> Sarah
>
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Rainer M Krug <Rainer at krugs.de> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I want to include ascii art in a function documentation which should
>> look as follow:
>>
>> ,----
>> | +------+------+------+
>> | | 1/16 | 1/16 | 1/16 |
>> | +------+------+------+
>> | | 1/16 | 8/16 | 1/16 |
>> | +------+------+------+
>> | | 1/16 | 1/16 | 1/16 |
>> | +------+------+------+
>> `----
>>
>>
>> to keep the monospaced font even in html, I decided to use \code{}:
>>
>> ,----
>> | \code{+------+------+------+}
>> |
>> | \code{| 1/16 | 1/16 | 1/16 |}
>> |
>> | \code{+------+------+------+}
>> |
>> | \code{| 1/16 | 8/16 | 1/16 |}
>> |
>> | \code{+------+------+------+}
>> |
>> | \code{| 1/16 | 1/16 | 1/16 |}
>> |
>> | \code{+------+------+------+}
>> `----
>>
>> But the result was an empty line between each text:
>>
>> ,----
>> |      '+------+------+------+'
>> |
>> |      '| 1/16 | 1/16 | 1/16 |'
>> |
>> |      '+------+------+------+'
>> |
>> |      '| 1/16 | 8/16 | 1/16 |'
>> |
>> |      '+------+------+------+'
>> |
>> |      '| 1/16 | 1/16 | 1/16 |'
>> |
>> |      '+------+------+------+'
>> `----
>>
>> and when no empty lines were included obviously put everything behind
>> each other.
>>
>> My question:
>>
>> Is there a way that I can achieve the ASCII art as shown above? Is there
>> a way of having a \linebreak which does not insert a new line?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>>
>> --
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