I can see that it can be done with scripts, but I decided I wanted a html
content generator for my site, it works good. But it need improvements.
On Saturday, May 25, 2013, Rugxulo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Michael B. Brutman
> <mbbrut...@brutman.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > I am not one to find fault with other people's work for the joy of
> > finding fault, but I am having a hard time seeing how this code is
> > useful or relevant:
>
> GPL, so patches welcome! :-)
>
> > - The headers that it is putting at the top of the file are fixed in
> > format. You still have to edit the output to change the string "author"
> > to your name, "content" to something other than "anonymous", "keywords"
> > to something other than <blank>, etc.
>
> A lot of tools (even digital cameras) do this, mostly because of
> default copyrighting, etc. (Yes, I realize putting "digital camera
> user" or whatever as author isn't very useful for enforcing copyright,
> but still ....)
>
> > - It always assumes that you need a link to an image embedded in the
> > output. The image is always 180 pixels wide and 90 pixels high. There
> > is no error checking to see if that filename was even provided so it
> > generates garbage if that option is missing.
>
> Yeah, error checking, the bane of a programmer's existence. :-P
>
> http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/ten-commandments.html
>
> "
> #6 :
>
> If a function be advertised to return an error code in the event of
> difficulties, thou shalt check for that code, yea, even though the
> checks triple the size of thy code and produce aches in thy typing
> fingers, for if thou thinkest 'it cannot happen to me', the gods shall
> surely punish thee for thy arrogance.
> "
>
> > - It puts a very spammy link to Digitalatoll Webpage Solutions at the
> > bottom of the generated file.
>
> That is par for the course, many other tools do the same (e.g. GNU
> Enscript). Manual editing of the output is thus required.
>
> > I'm sorry, but sometimes a free offering isn't worth accepting. This
> > code can probably be replaced with the DOS copy command and a few text
> > files; the copy command also lets you append things to files.
>
> I wrote my own .pas to .htm converter in .sed recently. Quite buggy.
> :-) It's a bit trickier than just pasting bits together. Well, my
> big problem was uppercasing reserved keywords within string literals
> (big no no), but I figured it was easy enough to manually fix, if
> needed. Outside of writing my own complete Pascal grammar parser, it's
> not too easy to avoid. (I also ended up weakly patching apashtm to
> work without Lazarus.)
>
> > The spammy link and the inability to customize the output without
> changing
> > the code and recompiling make it very very limited.
>
> I think changing the code and manually editing for one's needs is implied
> here.
>
> > DOS users don't need this, and I doubt that Linux users need it either.
>
> In fairness, nobody needs computers at all, society lived without them
> for thousands of years. And this IS only v0.0.1, keep in mind. ;-)
>
> P.S. I don't know the history of the Internet nor all programs ever
> made. I'm not sure if GNU A2PS is an official or unofficial precursor
> to GNU Enscript. There does seem to be some partial common heritage
> there. In any case, A2PS has a script called "card" which will "print"
> a reference card of a program based upon its "inline help". Just for
> reference, that exists as well. Oh, and I guess help2man (written in
> Perl) is vaguely similar. Yeah, lots and lots of doc formats out
> there.
>
>
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