documentation bug: s|t
Brian van den Broek
bvande at po-box.mcgill.ca
Fri Jul 30 17:08:16 EDT 2004
Alan G Isaac said unto the world upon 30/07/2004 16:43:
> The HTML version of the set union documentation
> seems fine
> http://python.active-venture.com/lib/set-objects.html
>
> But the PDF version appears to have an mdash instead
> of a vertical bar.
>
> I deduce that this is a LaTeX translation that ignore's
> Knuth's claim that we should not typeset | outside of
> math mode (or even want to!), so I'm guessing
> the same problem occurs elsewhere in the documentation.
> The translation needs to be $|$ instead of just |.
>
> How to report?
>
> Thanks,
> Alan Isaac
Hi Alan,
I've successfully reported (and had fixed :-) a documentation bug by
following the link from the "About the Python Documentation" section of
the docs to the sourceforge bugtracker at
<http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=5470>.
Best,
Brian vdB
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