| Title: | DOCUMENT T1.0 |
| Notice: | **New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)** |
| Moderator: | CLOSET::ADLER |
| Created: | Mon Feb 09 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Oct 31 1991 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 897 |
| Total number of notes: | 4397 |
We need to use double equal signs, and we've discovered that:
(1) <code_example>
y == 2x
<endcode_example>
produces y == 2x
(2) <code_example>(==)
produces = = (with an added space between the equal signs)
(3) <math>(==)
produces == (just what we wanted with no added space)
However, shouldn't <code_example>(==) produce == with no added space.
Is this a bug?
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 342.1 | it was worse before | CLOSET::ANKLAM | Tue May 05 1987 18:14 | 6 | |
Yes, there is some internal translation done on the occurrence of
two equal signs together in a text (i.e. not monospaced and not
math) format. You mean you want the equals signs run together?
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| 342.2 | AUTHOR::WELLCOME | Steve | Wed May 06 1987 10:38 | 10 | |
No, not run together. We want them to look like two consecutive
equal signs with no intervening space character. Right now it
looks like <equal sign> <space character> <equal sign>. We want
it to look like this, ==, just what you're seeing on your screen,
not like = =, which is very misleading and suggests that there
is an intervening space character. Since this is a code example,
there can't be ambiguity in what the exact characters are. This
happens to be for MACRO-11, but the same thing would apply to a
description of VMS DCL and the :== construction; it's :==, not := =.
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| 342.3 | Double Hyphens | STAR::GILLIAM | Wed May 06 1987 16:29 | 19 | |
We've noticed a similar situation trying to produce two hyphens in a row. Two hyphens makes an n-dash. Three hyphens generates an em-dash and so on. The writer needs to specify null fields within an absolute time specification. Here's a test file. <table> <table_setup>(2\10) <table_heads>(A\B) <TABLE_ROW>(<LITERAL>(--)\A) <TABLE_ROW>(<LITERAL>(-)<LITERAL>(-)\B) <TABLE_ROW>(- -\C) <TABLE_ROW>(--\D) <TABLE_ROW>(----\E) <TABLE_ROW>(<LITERAL>(--)<LITERAL>(--)\F) <ENDTABLE> Mason | |||||