Peter

Thank you for the information. I accidentally deleted Ken's post without 
having read it.
Ken' s thought is great but as you said awful to implement
I thought that  capture.output would come in handy some time when I first 
saw it on an unrelated reply.

Just thought :-  the latex listings package may have alternatives
If I remember correctly it has wrapping and other goodies but I when I 
started to investigate it a while ago I somehow came up with a 
non-compilable tex file.
I needed help from someone with more latex experience to progress

Duncan

At 10:12 20/08/2009, you wrote:
>Ken
>
>Thanks for your inspiration:  This combination of strwrap and writeLines 
>seems to "work" in one sense of the word:
>
>
>
># Intro stuff:
>wid <- 50
>option(width=wid)
>hide <- capture.output(example(glm))
>
># The business end:
>writeLines( strwrap( capture.output(summary(glm.D93)), wid))
>
>
>
>Mind you, while it "works", it's an awful construct.  I was actually 
>hoping to show this code in my book:
>    summary(glm.D93)
>and get the nice output appearing in my book.  I don't plan on replacing 
>the simple code above with
>    writeLines( strwrap( capture.output(summary(glm.D93)), wid))
>in the text of the book.  Maybe I can redefine print.summary.glm or 
>something (I've done that for the output of anova.glm and anova.lm: 
>Shh!  Don't tell anyone!).
>
>Thanks for your assistance Ken.  All the best in deep Basque country.
>
>P.
>
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> >>> Ken Knoblauch <ken.knoblauch@inserm.fr> 19/08/2009 7:56 pm >>>
>perhaps, strtrim
>
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