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ede manual contains many very wide lines

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 14716 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14716: ede manual contains many very wide lines
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 15:47:59 +0200

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> make -C doc/misc ede.pdf
>
> There are lots and lots of _extremely_ overfull lines, due to the way
> the "Inheritance Tree" sections are typeset. This essentially makes the
> manual unprintable. There needs to be a different way to insert the
> inheritance trees that does not use so many levels of indentation.

It apparently uses a bunch of nested tab;es for this, and tables indent
quite a lot.  Is there a different construct that could be used that
doesn't indent as much?

Here's an example:

@table @asis
@item Inheritance Tree:
@table @code
@item eieio-speedbar
@table @code
@item eieio-speedbar-directory-button
@table @code
@item @w{@xref{ede-target}.}
@table @code
@item @w{@xref{ede-proj-target}.}
@table @code
@item @w{@xref{ede-proj-target-makefile}.}
@table @code
@item @w{@xref{ede-proj-target-makefile-objectcode}.}
@table @code
@item @w{@xref{ede-proj-target-makefile-program}.}
@table @code
@item ede-proj-target-makefile-shared-object
No children
@end table
@end table
@end table
@end table
@end table
@end table
@end table
@end table
@end table


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