Re: format compact and loose

[John W. Eaton]

On  8-Sep-2011, Ben Abbott wrote:

| Might there be a specific place in the code where a single if-block could be 
placed to convert from loose to compact format? I don't know how to convert 
"os" on the c++ side, but I'm thinking of an equivalent to ...
| 
|       if (compact_format)
|         output = strrep (output, "\n\n", "\n");
|       endif

The trouble with this approach is that you have to collect all the
output first, then create a second copy of it with the replacement
text.  That could chew up a lot of memory.  It think it is better to
omit the extra newlines in the output routines.

jwe