Beautiful source code

Beautiful source code

[David Arnold]

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?


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Re: Beautiful source code

[Hans Hagen]

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  


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Re: Beautiful source code

[Karsten Heymann]

2007/6/4, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>:
> David Arnold wrote:
[...]
> > 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;

A side note: When using LaTeX, emacs+auctex can do that with the
"align-current" function. It would in fact be very nice if auctex's
context mode was equally powerful.

Yours
Karsten
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