OurBigBook
Inline code (code that should appear in the middle of a paragraph rather than on its own line) is done with a single backtick (
`) insane macro shortcut:
My inline `x = 'hello\n'` is awesome.which renders as:
and block code (code that should appear on their own line) is done with two or more backticks (My inlinex = 'hello\n'is awesome.
``):
``
f() {
return 'hello\n';
}
``which renders as:
f() { return 'hello\n'; }
The sane version of inline code is a lower case
c:
My inline \c[[x = 'hello\n']] is awesome.which renders as:
and the sane version of block math is with an upper caseMy inlinex = 'hello\n'is awesome.
C:
\C[[
f() {
return 'hello\n';
}
]]which renders as:
f() { return 'hello\n'; }
The capital vs lower case theme is also used in other elements, see: block vs inline macros.
If the content of the sane code block has many characters that you would need to escape, you will often want to use literal arguments, which work just like the do for any other argument. For example:
\C[[[
A paragraph.
\C[[
And now, some long, long code, with lots
of chars that you would need to escape:
\ [ ] { }
]]
A paragraph.
]]]which renders as:
Note that the initial newline is skipped automatically in code blocks, just as for any other element, due to: argument leading newline removal, so you don't have to worry about it.A paragraph. \C[[ And now, some long, long code, with lots of chars that you would need to escape: \ [ ] { } ]] A paragraph.
The distinction between inline
\c and block \C code blocks is needed because in HTML, pre cannot go inside P.We could have chosen to do some magic to differentiate between them, e.g. checking if the block is the only element in a paragraph, but we decided not to do that to keep the language saner.
And now a code block outside of
\OurBigBookExample to test how it looks directly under the \Toplevel implicit macro:Hello
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HelloNow with short description with math and underline:
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HelloCode 1. My long code!
And now a very long inline code:
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