On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 4:45 PM Sven Schreiber
<sven.schreiber@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.

Yes, I think so. Probably since gretl 2023b the "truly plain text"
help for some function packages has been misidentified as markdown due
to use of a too-simple heuristic, and that can lead to mangling of
plain text in which spaces and newlines are used for formatting.

I believe there are 10 affected packages, out of the 168 packages
currently on the server. This is now fixed (or at least mostly fixed,
there may be a little more to be done) in git and snapshots.

Thanks, Allin, it's looking good on the few examples I've checked. Can you enumerate your list of the 10 packages? Maybe we should write to the authors to avoid confusion.

cheers

sven