Notes, The Proper Way

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 18, 2010, at 10:36, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

> It'll probably behoof us to have an exhaustive demonstration of documentation on notes. They are not in the guide.
> 
> I believe Ryan's patch [1] addresses the main functional aspects:
> Ending a line with \ will simply cause the string to wrap, and all whitespace condensed.
> 
> We also should know that manual new lines also work, such as trying to list items for a user.
> 
> We also need to be mindful of escaping quotes (") .
> 
> Can we get something added to the Guide that demonstrates all three (and any others I'm forgetting)?
> 
> [1] http://trac.macports.org/attachment/ticket/25241/molden-notes.diff

I spent quite a while trying to make that patch look prettier, but I just couldn't make it work within the constraints of how notes is implemented. I wasn't happy with it.