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authorMatthias Clasen <matthiasc@src.gnome.org>2003-08-02 22:03:19 +0000
committerMatthias Clasen <matthiasc@src.gnome.org>2003-08-02 22:03:19 +0000
commit55391358655e00e986b7d5382dd091a77488dc64 (patch)
tree0d09ad83d96383be87a54564c81c04641bb07f6a /doc
parent8dd4ba4681d2e45acc44efb3a11660a46f821047 (diff)
downloadgtk-doc-55391358655e00e986b7d5382dd091a77488dc64.tar.gz
Some additions.
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@@ -59,3 +59,17 @@ it is empty after the removal of the initial ' * ' prefix. Thus you
can work around this problem by adding some trailing whitespace to
lines which should appear as empty, but not end a paragraph. This is
especially relevant in code examples, which often contain empty lines.
+
+Some more hints regarding examples: Hyperlinks in the formatted examples
+are confusing, therefore you should suppress the gtk-doc markup by using
+function(<!-- -->) instead of function(). Use character entities to refer
+to the characters %, &, < or #, e.g.
+
+ if (a < b && verbose)
+ printf ("bla %s %#x", bla, a);
+
+would become
+
+ if (a &lt; b &amp;&amp; verbose)
+ printf ("bla &percnt;s &percnt;&num;x", bla, a);
+