Set Formatting Options for Text Help

Description

This function sets various options for displaying text help.

Usage

Rd2txt_options(...)

Arguments

Details

This function persistently sets various formatting options for the Rd2txt function which is used in displaying text format help. Currently defined options are:

width

(default 80): The width of the output page.

minIndent

(default 10): The minimum indent to use in a list.

extraIndent

(default 4): The extra indent to use in each level of nested lists.

sectionIndent

(default 5): The indent level for a section.

sectionExtra

(default 2): The extra indentation for each nested section level.

itemBullet

(default "* ", with the asterisk replaced by a Unicode bullet in UTF-8 and most Windows locales): The symbol to use as a bullet in itemized lists.

enumFormat

: A function to format item numbers in enumerated lists.

showURLs

(default FALSE): Whether to show URLs when expanding \href tags.

code_quote

(default TRUE): Whether to render \code and similar with single quotes.

underline_titles

(default TRUE): Whether to render section titles with underlines (via backspacing).

Value

If called with no arguments, returns all option settings in a list. Otherwise, it changes the named settings and invisibly returns their previous values.

Author(s)

Duncan Murdoch

See Also

Rd2txt

Examples

# The itemBullet is locale-specific
saveOpts <- Rd2txt_options()
saveOpts
Rd2txt_options(minIndent = 4)
Rd2txt_options()
Rd2txt_options(saveOpts)
Rd2txt_options()