perl6storm #0060: formats

[Philip Newton]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Tom Christiansen wrote:

> =item perl6storm #0060
> 
> formats and html doesn't mix nicely (not wysiwig).   Neither do any
> hidden chars, like ESC-blah.  Can we do more for generating simple
> clean transparent xml?

Talking of ESC-blah, I've sometimes wanted to have a way to use formats
that can print embedded printer control sequences -- that is, formats that
know that length("\e*(3B") == 0. However, this is probably impossible to
generalise or get right (specifically because escape sequences are
variable length, and the set of escape sequences cannot be defined
beforehand).

Cheers,
Philip
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