This adds two option tables 'Printing Record' and 'Printing Constructor'

that forces a given type to always be printed as a record, or with a
constructor, regardless of the setting of 'Printing Records'.

And this is that patch that controls printing by type.

(patch from Tom Prince)

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/coq/trunk@14286 85f007b7-540e-0410-9357-904b9bb8a0f7

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/refman/RefMan-ext.tex b/doc/refman/RefMan-ext.tex
index 182a50959..3429bafab 100644
--- a/doc/refman/RefMan-ext.tex
+++ b/doc/refman/RefMan-ext.tex
@@ -200,10 +200,19 @@ Definition b := {| x := 5; y := 3 |}.
 Definition c := {| y := 3; x := 5 |}.
 \end{coq_example}
 
-This syntax can be disabled for printing by
+This syntax can be disabled globally for printing by
 \begin{quote}
 {\tt Unset Printing Records.}
 \end{quote}
+For a given type, one can override this using either
+\begin{quote}
+{\tt Add Printing Record {\ident}.}
+\end{quote}
+to get record syntax or
+\begin{quote}
+{\tt Add Printing Constructor {\ident}.}
+\end{quote}
+to get constructor syntax.
 
 This syntax can also be used for pattern matching.