• Derek Parnell (13/13) Oct 02 2005 It appears that when DDOC sees $(BR) it outputs the macro expansion
• Walter Bright (4/8) Oct 02 2005
  

Derek Parnell <derek psych.ward> writes:

It appears that when DDOC sees $(BR) it outputs the macro expansion
followed by a new-line. Thus when I have the BR macro defined as BR = <br/>
we get "<br/>\n" in the output file, which really messes up <pre>...</pre>
blocks.

A work around for this effect was to define a new macro to use in
preformatted blocks;  

  NL =

so that $(NL) outputs just "\n". Not very consistent but it works.

-- 
Derek
(skype: derek.j.parnell)
Melbourne, Australia
3/10/2005 10:42:25 AM

"Walter Bright" <newshound digitalmars.com> writes:

"Derek Parnell" <derek psych.ward> wrote in message
news:1vt0x6kl7zd7b.j00do5bcoq2b$.dlg 40tude.net...
 It appears that when DDOC sees $(BR) it outputs the macro expansion
 followed by a new-line. Thus when I have the BR macro defined as BR =

<br/>
 we get "<br/>\n" in the output file, which really messes up <pre>...</pre>
 blocks.

That bug is certainly a pain, and is fixed now.