ddoc and CODE_HIGHLIGHT macro

[Nick Treleaven via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 27/07/2014 09:44, Alix Pexton wrote:
> On 26/07/2014 4:31 PM, Nick Treleaven wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Ddoc doesn't seem to expand a macro near top of
>> http://dlang.org/hash-map.html:
>>
>> // The $(CODE_HIGHLIGHT KeyType) is string
>>
>> Which is weird because it expands it for 'remove' on this line not far
>> below it:
>>
>> b.remove("hello");
>>
>> Maybe a bug in dmd?
>
> This is because the macro is used within a comment in a code section
> (between lines of hyphens). Macros are normally expanded within code
> sections, but inside comments they get ignored.
>
> I filed an enhancement request.
>
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13211

OK, great.

>> Also, I build some dlang.org docs individually and CODE_HIGHLIGHT is
>> inserting a line break in the html. I think this is because the macro
>> has an empty line after it:
>>
>> CODE_HIGHLIGHT=$(B $(I $0))
>>
>> MDASH=<nobr>&#x200A;—&#x200A;</nobr>
>>
>> I can't tell from git blame when it was introduced, the website html
>> doesn't show the line break. Is there a workaround, or just remove the
>> empty line?
>
> I've reproduced this, it seems it is related to the platform of the
> file, ie a macro with a blank line after it declared in a file with
> windows line endings (CR; + LF;) will have a line break on the end but
> one in file with single character line breaks won't.
>
> I filed that one as a bug.
>
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13212

Interesting, so assuming the site docs were generated on Linux that's 
why they are OK. Git on Windows checks out the file as CRLF automagically.