Re: [Gretl-users] stylesheet for function package help

Change of sub-topic: Does anyone have any clever ideas regarding the formatting of plain-text help for function packages? At present we have an unholy mixture of styles -- this is mercilessly exposed by the experimental web business up-thread but is also apparent on viewing package help within gretl. Some authors favor very short lines that look kinda silly relative to the standard width of printed material in gretl (that is, somewhere between 70 and 80 characters per line). Other authors write very long lines that have to be word-wrapped. Word-wrapping is fine in some cases, but it totally mangles lines that have been typed with a hanging indent (or worse, two nested hanging indents!). One possible idea would be to insist on markdown in gfn text help, though I think markdown itself has problems in the line-length department. I've been contemplating the idea of a post-processor which would "fix" the help text for a package when it's uploaded to the server, but the more examples I look at, the more it seems like this would be an advanced AI project! Another possibility would be to require that all packages have PDF documentation, though that would both raise the bar for package contribution and spell the end of standalone gfn files. Any better/different ideas? Allin