[IPython-dev] magic docstrings

[Stefan van der Walt]

The problem I mention below is difficult to solve without making use
of some markup.  Markup tends to look ugly, but I think the ReST guys
have a pretty good solution:

http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

This solves the problem below, since all example blocks will be
clearly identifyable, and can then be processed with a LaTeX filter.

Stéfan

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 04:02:22PM +0200, Stefan van der Walt wrote:
> The more tricky problem, however, is the use of "\\" in the
> docstrings.  In Python, you do not want "\\" in your docstrings, since
> they display as "\", but without the "\\" LaTeX won't print a
> line-feed.