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

[Leonid Pauzner]

13-May-99 01:23 Vlad Harchev wrote:
> 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.

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

It would be nice if you split your patch into two:
one for *.html files and the other for LYNXSETTINGSTATUS:// handling.
(how about LYNXCFGSETTINGSTATUS:// ?)

>> 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'.

Good HTML source layout can be seen in lynx-dev.html of lynx_help/ dir.

>> 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
> '@'.

grep body.html LYS__    and you will find more curiosities

>  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.
This is a matter of taste. (using word processors may be another solution).

>  Thanks Leonid, all this will be fixed.