From c63ce2c7aa8916b306c6038456db3ed1388f99b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: simon Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 17:09:13 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Couple of extra points: forgot about the \i\cw special case, and Jacob points out that I didn't specify whether inline formatting commands can surround line breaks (they can). git-svn-id: svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/halibut@3994 cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e --- doc/input.but | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/input.but b/doc/input.but index 31c9f8d..a52735e 100644 --- a/doc/input.but +++ b/doc/input.but @@ -65,6 +65,17 @@ commands, which means you can use them in the middle of a paragraph. \K{input-para} describes some \e{paragraph} commands, which affect a whole paragraph at a time. +Many of these commands are followed by a pair of braces surrounding +some text. In all cases, it is perfectly safe to have a line break +(in the input file) within those braces; Halibut will treat that +exactly the same as a space. For example, these two paragraphs will +be treated identically: + +\c Here is some \e{emphasised +\c text}. +\c +\c Here is some \e{emphasised text}. + \S{input-emph} \c{\\e}: Emphasising text Possibly the most obvious piece of formatting you might want to use @@ -1016,7 +1027,7 @@ You can wrap more than one word in \c{\\i} as well: \S{input-index-special} Special cases of indexing If you need to index a computer-related term, you can use the -special case \c{\\i\\c}: +special case \c{\\i\\c} (or \c{\\i\\cw} if you prefer): \c The \i\c{grep} command is what you want here. -- 2.11.0