Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.25d-cpp.patch.gz

[Vlad Harchev]

On Wed, 12 May 1999, Leonid Pauzner wrote:

> >      * From: Vlad Harchev <address@hidden>
> 
> >   I've implemented functionality described in quoted message. The patch is
> > placed at http://www.hippo.ru/~hvv/patch.gz  - it's 300Kb unpacked. It
> > consists of body.html, {alpha,cat}toc.html, index.html placed in the
> > 'lynx_help' subdirectory and modifications to .c files.  No scripts are
> 
> 
> Looking onto body.html I found its source not so pretty as I was expected:
> if we include it as a help file we should fix generating script first.

 To Henry Nelson - I expect you will sent such messages rather than those you
do now :)

 OK, all this will be fixed. New version of body.html will be placed at
www.hippo.ru/~hvv (I'l inform about this).

> 1) too much blank lines (a series of ~30 blank lines). 

 Cpp emits a line for line of input (even if the input line is macro
definition, that won't go to output). Quick (but incomplete) solution is 
'cat -s body.html > body-new.html'.

> 2) no newlines before/after <p>
> 3) no newlines before <h2>, <h3> and after </h2> </h3> etc.

 2) and 3) will be done.

> 4) what the purpose of this line:
> +   <pre> </pre><pre> </pre><hr><p>

 The purpose of lines like this was inserting a big gap between setting
descriptions (I decided that they look better if there is some gap between
them).

> 5) obvious typo (address@hidden):
> +<link rev="made" href="mailto:lynx-devLYS__sig.net";>

 For curious: every unquoted @ is replaced with LYS__ (so I was able to use
short names for macros like @M,@S,@H). In that case I simply forgot to quote
'@'. 

 Due to the fact this file was generated with sed/cpp/sed, reformatting issues
like 1-4) can ber easily performed. This is an advantage of storing
docs in special format.

 Thanks Leonid, all this will be fixed.