Subject: Re: [patch] Lists support in HTML export
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2001 - 07:08:53 CST
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, John L. Clark wrote:
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>
> I can understand the benefit to the interface with our text based
> interfaces (the XML parsers), but I don't understand the robustness
> issue. I would think enums would be significantly less error prone.
> They would be much more straightforward, cutting out our need for a lot
> of workarounds to looking up strings. At least from a beginner's
> understanding of what's going on.
>
It took me ages to workout a way to assemble arrays of const strings
needed for piecetable manipulations. Look at the list manipulation code in
fl_BlockLayout. It sure would have been easier with enums.
> >
> > If you're working through the PieceTable I suggest that doing the most
> > recent POW would be a useful learning experience as well as fixing a bug
> > that makes editting large docs really painful.
>
> I read over the POW, and I've been thinking about zapping it. I have
> classes starting on Tuesday, so I really don't know how much time I can
> spend on Abi hacking. I definitely hope I will still be able to keep up
> with it, though. That said, may I tentatively zap it, and encourage
> anyone willing to help me to do so? I will work on it, as well as
> continue my work with the HTML export and of course, reading over source
> code.
Go ahead and zap it. Feel free to ask for help if you need it. I'm certain
we can fix this bug.
Cheers
Martin
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