From sarah.goslee at gmail.com  Thu Sep  5 16:15:54 2013
From: sarah.goslee at gmail.com (Sarah Goslee)
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 10:15:54 -0400
Subject: [Rd] ASCII art in function documentation?
In-Reply-To: <m238pjjr5s.fsf@krugs.de>
References: <m238pjjr5s.fsf@krugs.de>
Message-ID: <CAM_vju=9Z_kdWRvBf+r8x=4eS-q-s5Xng+aveF2WJKhuBQXGvA@mail.gmail.com>

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

\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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[Rd] ASCII art in function documentation?
Sarah Goslee