David Arnold wrote:

Hans,

I'm revisiting the metafun manual and I am marveling at the format of the source code. For example:

\starttabulate[|lT|l|] \HL \NC \METAPOST\ code \NC mathematical equivalent \NC \NR \HL \NC (x,y) shifted (a,b) \NC $(x+a,y+b)$ \NC \NR \NC (x,y) scaled s \NC $(sx,sy)$ \NC \NR \NC (x,y) xscaled s \NC $(sx,y)$ \NC \NR \NC (x,y) yscaled s \NC $(x,sy)$ \NC \NR \NC (x,y) zscaled (u,v) \NC $(xu-yv,xv+yu)$ \NC \NR \NC (x,y) slanted s \NC $(x+sy,y)$ \NC \NR \NC (x,y) rotated r \NC $(x\cos(r)-y\sin(r),x\sin(r)+y\cos(r))$ \NC \NR \HL \stoptabulate

Pasting into my email program does not do this code snippet justice, as in the Metafun source, all of the \NC's are aligned vertically, as are the \NR's. How do you do this? Does your editor align these for you, or do you painstakenly align them manually with the spacebar?

just manually ; the cleaner the ascii text, the less chance of errors (typos or coding); company policy/habit; it hardly takes more time; Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------