Re: broken online help system

Raymond Martin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lush.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 20:28, Ralf Juengling wrote:
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Here is the next problem:
> 
> I want to document global variables which have names like
> '*gnuplot-color-to-linetype*'. The asterisk is a keyword
> in the help system's markup language and so it happens
> that the corresponding entry in the formatted help text
> is 'gnuplot-color-to-linetype*', missing the first leading
> asterisk. Is there a way to workaround problem?

Check this manual section:
Core Interpreter and Startup Library -> Documentation and Help System ->
Writing Documentation -> Document Body: Brace Syntax

Most likely you will want to use one of ,$expr or /$expr ,,$expr, to enter a string.

Raymond

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