[REBOL] Re: Make-Doc Formatter replaces Make-Spec
From: allenk:powerup:au at: 26-May-2001 18:23
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Sassenrath" <[carl--rebol--com]>
To: <[rebol-list--rebol--com]>
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 9:47 AM
Subject: [REBOL] Re: Make-Doc Formatter replaces Make-Spec
> At 5/26/01 09:02 AM +1200, you wrote:
> >Carl wrote:
> > > Make-Doc is a two pass text formatter. The first pass converts to a
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> >block format. The second pass uses that block format to convert to the
> >output target format, which is HTML at this time, but it could be any
type
> >of output, including Text, PDF, Tex, Helpfiles, .roff, whatever you want.
> >
> > > Writing the output formatters is fairly easy... you can use the HTML
> >version as an example. Eventually we will want to put the output
formatters
> >in separate files.
> >
> >I thought this:
> > "#" paragraph opt newline (emit enum para) |
> > was a interesting idea for numbered lists (as a non-American I'm not
> >familiar with the use of "#" as meaning "number". I've been using "0"
(the
> >digit/character zero) as the marker, followed by a tab.
>
> The # is pretty standard for "number" in American. Funny how things like
that are not international, eh?
How did that usage miss NZ? Quite common in Australia. I guess that prooves
NZ isn't a state of Australia, despite what some poor US cable news
reporters say.
Cheers,
Allen K
