You've answered my question 2 about why the manual was in odd order > R CMD check was more of a check of the latex version of the files, not > the final manual.
I was looking at the result of R CMD check, and it was in random order (perhaps file date?), not just a different collation choice. Very odd. I will cease worrying about what I might have "done wrong". I omitted the important version information: R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23) on Linux. My other question was apparently unclear. looking at the pdf output (because it is nicest to read) I refer to it as "printed" because that's what I very often do for any substantial chunk of reading (>2 pages). Easier on my eyes. Talking only about the example section The question is what the result of \dontrun should be when producing a product that is meant to be read by a human, and I will assume that this is the primary target of the latex process. I oject to the comment that it adds. I would much prefer that it not add extraneous comments to my examples. I do want the items bracketed by \dontrun to appear -- if I didn't think the lines were useful I wouldn't have put them there. Perhaps because I like printed versions I like examples to show not just legal input, but give feedback on what the code does; thus make it to the extent possible look like a shapshot of a session and not just a set of legal input. It is most often output that I will have bracketed. (wrt Gabor's comment, I would rather not turn it into a comment block; it would not look at all like that on the screen). There will be two levels to the response: argue that I really shouldn't want to do this, and suggestions on how or how not to accomplish it. Wrt the first -- I need to consider this more. You may convince me. Wrt th second: I don't know perl, but looked at Rdconv.pm. It looks like changing the line to $text= undefine_command($text, "dontrun") would do what I want; but that's a guess, and it would only change the local behavior I'll have to pull down R-devel to understand the tools::: comment. Yes, verbatim sections in Tex are subtle. Thanks for the input. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
