@Section @Title { Embedding Lout commands within program comments } @Tag { cpcomm } @Begin @PP It is possible to embed Lout text inside program comments. How this is done could in principle vary from language to language, but in every language supported so far it is done by starting off the comment with an @Code "@" character. If the language has several ways to get a comment, this will work every way. The entire comment after the @Code "@" character should then be Lout text. For example, to force Lout to start a new page at some point within a C program, place @ID @Code "/*@ @NP */" at that point. (In this case you can also simply include a formfeed character without any comment; see Section {@NumberOf formfeed} for more on this.) Or, to make a heading in an Eiffel program, do this: @ID @Code "--@ @Display @Heading { treeprint }" (Eiffel comments begin with @Code "--" and end at the end of the line.) Other possible uses for this feature include index entries and margin notes. Incredible as it may seem, you can even write @ID @Code "/*@ @CD @Heading { Function @CP { treeprint() } } */" with a @Code "@CP" symbol and some C code inside the Lout code inside the C code. You probably can't go further, however, at least not in C, since that would require a C comment inside a C comment. @End @Section