On Wed 26 Aug 2015 00:09, Mathieu Lirzin <m...@openmailbox.org> writes:
> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Mathieu Lirzin <m...@openmailbox.org> skribis:
>>
>>> Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:24:10PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>>>> With Benno being OK, we should start looking at implementing the change.
>>>
>>> Good news! I'm interested in implementing this change. I can't dedicate
>>> my time to do this right now, but I can do it within a period of one
>>> month. If someone is willing to do the work sooner, I have no problem
>>> with that.
>>
>> FWIW I won’t be working (at all ;-)) in the coming weeks, so I’m happy
>> if you (or someone else) works on this sometime while I’m away. :-)
>
> I'm sending this email to notify that even if the estimated period of
> work has ended. I am still working on it.
Will all docstrings be parsed as texinfo? To me this is the proper
solution, since plain text is mostly a subset of texinfo. It could be
that all descriptions are already texinfo. You just have to be careful
about @ { and } when used literally -- they need replacing with @@ @{
and @}.
In Guile I've had a hack that tries to render docstrings as texinfo,
falling back to a @verbatim block otherwise, but I don't recommend it:
(use-modules (texinfo) (texinfo plain-text) (ice-9 regexp))
(define many-space? (make-regexp "[[:space:]][[:space:]][[:space:]]"))
(define initial-space? (make-regexp "^[[:space:]]"))
(define (string->stexi str)
(or (and (or (not str) (string-null? str))
'(*fragment*))
(and (or (string-index str #\@)
(and (not (regexp-exec many-space? str))
(not (regexp-exec initial-space? str))))
(false-if-exception
(texi-fragment->stexi str)))
`(*fragment* (verbatim ,str))))
(define (string-format str)
(stexi->plain-text (string->stexi str)))
Better to just adopt texinfo and fix up any descriptions that need it.
Probably you could use guix package -s and recutils to grep for
descriptions that need patching.
Andy
