On Sat, 26 Oct 2024, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 25.10.2024 um 21:37 schrieb Cottrell, Allin:
> 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.
>
> 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.
OK, here are the 10 packages:
gregory_hansen (Artur)
CvDataSplitter (Artur)
VARrec (Artur)
gqtest (Oleh)
a_eff (Oleh)
tobit_mfx (Oleh)
GlobalFactors (Ioannis)
ModRS_test (Daniel V-S)
VSG_test (Daniel V-S)
summary_xy (Yi-Nung)
These packages have two things in common: (a) their help text
contains the '#' character, which is suggestive of markdown, but (b)
they predate gretl 2023b (2023-07-21), which was the first gretl
release to support use of markdown -- so in fact gretl should have
disregarded the presence of '#'.
Allin