Re: makeinfo swallows page breaks

2013-03-22 Thread Andy Wingo
On Thu 21 Mar 2013 22:56, k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes: > Guile’s Texinfo parser > > Argh. The idea of a full second Texinfo parser in GNU is fundamentally > wrong. I understand where you come from. For some context on why I wrote this parser back in 2004: http://wingolog.org

Re: makeinfo swallows page breaks

2013-03-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > Attached is a patch to use Guile’s Texinfo support [0] to build said > file. Guile’s Texinfo parser is incomplete but sufficient to handle > those docstrings. I went ahead and pushed this after discussion with Mark and Andy on IRC. Regarding rendering:

Re: makeinfo swallows page breaks

2013-03-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > Regarding rendering: Andy noted that spaces after a sentence-ending > periods are not preserved. I’ve investigated, but there are tests that > assume that whitespace is collapsed, so that will require more thought. More precisely, Texinfo says (info "(te

Re: [PATCH] Bindings for ‘sendfile’

2013-03-22 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Mark H Weaver skribis: > >> Since the code below will behave badly if 'c_count' does not fit in an >> 'ssize_t', we should validate here that it _does_ fit. > > Oops, indeed. (Note that sendfile(2) and write(2) have that problem: > they take a size_t and

Re: [PATCH] Bindings for ‘sendfile’

2013-03-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver skribis: > Looks good to me! :) Thanks, committed. Ludo’.

Re: makeinfo swallows page breaks

2013-03-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > Regarding rendering: Andy noted that spaces after a sentence-ending > periods are not preserved. I’ve investigated, but there are tests that > assume that whitespace is collapsed, so that will require more thought. After discussion on IRC, I committed 43

Re: Special variables to relax boxing

2013-03-22 Thread Stefan Israelsson Tampe
Hi list, Mark and Noah, Yesterday I noticed that the sematics for special variables are quite close to fluids and decied to see if I could model special variables ontop of that with-fluids semantics. That was pretty easy. The basic difference between fluid and special variables is that with fluids

Re: Special variables to relax boxing

2013-03-22 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 23 March 2013 06:33, Stefan Israelsson Tampe wrote: > (define (f x) > (let ((s 0)) > (with-special-soft ((s 0)) >(let lp ((i 0)) > (cond > ((>= i 100) s) > ((= i 50) (abort-to-prompt 'tag) (lp (+ i 1))) > (else (set! s (+ s i)) (lp

TeXInfo-related build failure

2013-03-22 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
Hello, list. I encountered following error, trying to build guile from git with `makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 5.1`. CCing to TexInfo list, maybe it is intresting. Making all in ref make[3]: Entering directory `/share/arch-illusionoflife/build/guile-git/src/guile-build/doc/ref' U