On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Alan G Isaac <aisaac@american.edu> wrote:
>> On 3/21/2010 12:54 AM, Ralf Gommers wrote:
>>> too many blank lines are needed


> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Alan G Isaac <aisaac@american.edu
> <mailto:aisaac@american.edu>> wrote:
>>     Please define "need" after seeing the compact example I posted.


On 3/21/2010 9:58 AM, Ralf Gommers wrote:
> You need 4 blank lines in your example. Now I tried adding a description


Here is the compact example I posted.

        q, r if mode = 'full':
           - q : ndarray of float or complex, shape (M, K)
           - r : ndarray of float or complex, shape (K, N)
        r if mode = 'r':
           - r : ndarray of float or complex, shape (K, N)
        a2 if mode = 'economic':
           - a2 : ndarray of float or complex, shape (M, N)

        K = min(M, N).
        The diagonal and the upper triangle of `a2` contains `r`,
        while the rest of `a2` is undefined.

Your example works, the only blank lines it needs is before and after the whole block, plus above "K = min(M, N)." With one level of indentation this is an alternative to dashed lists.

After adding definitions for the returned arguments I still think it doesn't look good, but that's maybe a matter of taste. Try this in the wiki (in the Notes, doesn't work in Parameters/Returns):

q, r if mode = 'full':
    - q : ndarray of float or complex, shape (M, K)
          Definition of q.
    - r : ndarray of float or complex, shape (K, N)
          Definition of r.
r if mode = 'r':
    - r : ndarray of float or complex, shape (K, N)
          Definition of r.
a2 if mode = 'economic':
    - a2 : ndarray of float or complex, shape (M, N)
          Definition of a.
 
    K = min(M, N).
    The diagonal and the upper triangle of `a2` contains `r`,
    while the rest of `a2` is undefined.


Cheers,
Ralf