> On 5 Nov 2021, at 15:25, Patrick Sanan <patrick.sa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Good question. We don't have any that start at specific line numbers, > currently, as it is indeed too brittle - I suspect I removed some that were > there at one point. > > The inclusions essentially all use :start-at: to specify a line to match. > Ideally you'd also use :end-at: to specify where to stop, but some short > snippets do instead specify a number of lines. Note that a practically handy > option is :append:, as in this example where you are trying to excerpt the > function PetscError(), and you can match on the PetscFunctionReturn(0) and > then re-add the closing brace. > > .. literalinclude::/../src/sys/error/err.c > :start-at: PetscErrorCode PetscError( > :end-at: PetscFunctionReturn(0) > :append: }
FWIW, this feels a bit like trying to reinvent WEB. Doing actual literate documentation of key tutorial programs would be a nice way of doing this, but I realise that's a lot more effort. Lawrence
