[Gretl-devel] Re: various contributed packages with messed-up help text formatting
On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 4:45 PM Sven Schreiber
<sven.schreiber(a)fu-berlin.de> wrote:
I'm wondering whether in recent months / years there has been a change
in gretl behavior which causes problems with the formatting and/or
display of the help text of function packages.
For example, about three weeks ago I noticed such a problem with the
ModRS_test package, and I contacted the author about it. (Update
pending, in principle.)
But now I'm seeing a similar (although less severe) problem with Artur's
CvDataSplitter, or gregory_hansen. There are more, I believe, and it is
becoming impractical to have all those packages updated.
Speculations about the cause:
- gretl's relatively recent support for markdown might perhaps have side
effects for non-markdown stuff?
Yes, possible.
- I'm using the new Windows GTK3/ucrt gretl version, could this
be a factor?
No.
It seems like the "don't respect line-breaks within paragraphs"
policy, which is wanted for markdown text, may have spilled over to
the display of "traditional" plain text help. I'll look into this.
Allin