pretty-printing
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Pretty-printing (or prettyprinting) is the application of any of various stylistic formatting conventions to text files, such as source code, markup, and similar kinds of content. These formatting conventions may entail adhering to an indentation style, using different color and typeface to highlight syntactic elements of source code, or adjusting size, to make the content easier for people to read, and understand. Pretty-printers for source code are sometimes called code formatters or beautifiers.
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Pretty-printing mathematics
- Pretty-printing markup and tag-based code
- Formatting of program source code
- HTML
- Lisp pretty-printer
- Project style rules
- Example of formatting and beautifying code
- See also
- References
- External links
Pretty-printing (or prettyprinting) is the application of any of various stylistic formatting conventions to text files, such as source code, markup, and similar kinds of content. These formatting conventions may entail adhering to an indentation style, using different color and typeface to highlight syntactic elements of source code, or adjusting size, to make the content easier for people to read, and understand. Pretty-printers for source code are sometimes called code formatters or beautifiers.
==Pretty-printing mathematics==
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