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5.4.5 Text formatting
- Lines should be less than 72 characters long. (We personally recommend writing with 66-char lines, but do not bother modifying existing material). Also see the recommendations for fixed-width fonts in the Syntax survey.
- Do not use tabs.
- Do not use spaces at the beginning of a line (except in
@example
or@verbatim
environments), and do not use more than a single space between words. ‘texi2any’ copies the input lines verbatim without removing those spaces. - Use two spaces after a period.
- In examples of syntax, use
@var{musicexpr}
for a music expression. - Don’t use
@rinternals{}
in the main text. If you’re tempted to do so, you’re probably getting too close to “talking through the code”. If you really want to refer to a context, use@code{}
in the main text and@rinternals{}
in the@morerefs
.