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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2002-07-02 20:37:12 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2002-07-02 20:37:12 (GMT)
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Deal with & remove the XXX comments.
Change the markup to be more like the rest of the documentation.
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc')
-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libtextwrap.tex54
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 30 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libtextwrap.tex b/Doc/lib/libtextwrap.tex
index a4924e7..675609e 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libtextwrap.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libtextwrap.tex
@@ -15,16 +15,17 @@ wrapping or filling one or two text strings, the convenience functions
should be good enough; otherwise, you should use an instance of
\class{TextWrapper} for efficiency.
-\begin{funcdesc}{wrap}{text, width=70, **kwargs}
+\begin{funcdesc}{wrap}{text\optional{, width\optional{, \moreargs}}}
Wraps the single paragraph in \var{text} (a string) so every line is at
most \var{width} characters long. Returns a list of output lines,
without final newlines.
Optional keyword arguments correspond to the instance attributes of
-\class{TextWrapper}, documented below.
+\class{TextWrapper}, documented below. \var{width} defaults to
+\code{70}.
\end{funcdesc}
-\begin{funcdesc}{fill}{text, width=70, **kwargs}
+\begin{funcdesc}{fill}{text\optional{, width\optional{, \moreargs}}}
Wraps the single paragraph in \var{text}, and returns a single string
containing the wrapped paragraph. \function{fill()} is shorthand for
\begin{verbatim}
@@ -41,16 +42,9 @@ instance is not reused, so for applications that wrap/fill many text
strings, it will be more efficient for you to create your own
\class{TextWrapper} object.
-% XXX how to typeset long argument lists? this just spills off
-% the edge of the page, with or without \\ delimiters
-\begin{classdesc}{TextWrapper}{width=70, \\
- initial_indent="", \\
- subsequent_indent="", \\
- expand_tabs=True, \\
- replace_whitespace=True, \\
- fix_sentence_endings=False, \\
- break_long_words=True}
-
+\begin{classdesc}{TextWrapper}{width, initial_indent, subsequent_indent,
+ expand_tabs, replace_whitespace,
+ fix_sentence_endings, break_long_words}
Each keyword argument to the constructor corresponds to an instance
attribute, so for example
\begin{verbatim}
@@ -64,16 +58,19 @@ wrapper.initial_indent = "* "
You can re-use the same \class{TextWrapper} object many times, and you
can change any of its options through direct assignment to instance
-attributes between uses. The effects of the instance attributes are as
-follows:
+attributes between uses.
+\end{classdesc}
+
-\begin{memberdesc}[bool]{expand_tabs}
+The effects of the instance attributes are as follows:
+
+\begin{memberdesc}{expand_tabs}
If true (the default), then all tab characters in \var{text} will be
expanded to spaces using the \method{expand_tabs()} method of
\var{text}.
\end{memberdesc}
-\begin{memberdesc}[bool]{replace_whitespace}
+\begin{memberdesc}{replace_whitespace}
If true (the default), each whitespace character (as defined by
\var{string.whitespace}) remaining after tab expansion will be replaced
by a single space. \note{If \var{expand_tabs} is false and
@@ -81,20 +78,19 @@ by a single space. \note{If \var{expand_tabs} is false and
a single space, which is \emph{not} the same as tab expansion.}
\end{memberdesc}
-% XXX how to typeset the empty string? this looks awful, and "" is worse.
-\begin{memberdesc}[string]{initial_indent}
-(default: '') String that will be prepended to the first line of wrapped
-output. Counts towards the length of the first line.
+\begin{memberdesc}{initial_indent}
+(default: \code{''}) String that will be prepended to the first line
+of wrapped output. Counts towards the length of the first line.
\end{memberdesc}
-\begin{memberdesc}[string]{subsequent_indent}
-(default: '') String that will be prepended to all lines of wrapped
-output except the first. Counts towards the length of each line except
-the first.
+\begin{memberdesc}{subsequent_indent}
+(default: \code{''}) String that will be prepended to all lines of
+wrapped output except the first. Counts towards the length of each
+line except the first.
\end{memberdesc}
-\begin{memberdesc}[bool]{fix_sentence_endings}
-(default: false) If true, \class{TextWrapper} attempts to detect
+\begin{memberdesc}{fix_sentence_endings}
+(default: \code{False}) If true, \class{TextWrapper} attempts to detect
sentence endings and ensure that sentences are always separated by
exactly two spaces. This is generally desired for text in a monospaced
font. However, the sentence detection algorithm is imperfect: it
@@ -115,7 +111,7 @@ definition of ``lowercase letter'', it is specific to English-language
texts. Thus, \var{fix_sentence_endings} is false by default.
\end{memberdesc}
-\begin{memberdesc}[bool]{break_long_words}
+\begin{memberdesc}{break_long_words}
If true (the default), then words longer than \var{width} will be broken
in order to ensure that no lines are longer than \var{width}. If it is
false, long words will not be broken, and some lines may be longer than
@@ -137,5 +133,3 @@ of output lines, without final newlines.
Wraps the single paragraph in \var{text}, and returns a single string
containing the wrapped paragraph.
\end{methoddesc}
-
-\end{classdesc}