After a busy autumn I found time to prepare a new TLF-1.2.0_pre3 prerelease. This is an experimental version to mainly check the new code to write cabrillo logs.
Due to GitHub dropping the upload of packaged distribution ready files it is only available at http://www.hs-mittweida.de/tb/tlf-1.2.0_pre3.tar.gz It extends the features already found in TLF-1.2.0_pre2 (extended log file format and recording of working QRG) and incorporates all the work from tlf-1.1.4 and 1.1.5 (see NEWS file for details). New feature: The main feature is a totally new code to write cabrillo log files. The old code contained a lot of errors and was not easily extendable to new contests with different cabrillo formats. The new routine formats the cabrillo log according to a textual description (Which can be modified and extended by the user) located in /usr/(local/)share/cabrillo.fmt. That way we are easily able to adapt to (hopefully) all new cabrillo formats. Please read doc/README.cabrillo carefully for the details. Make sure to also have a look to the default cabrillo format descriptions provided in share/cabrillo.fmt to give you some examples. Be aware that you have to adapt your existing contest rule files to include the new 'CABRILLO=<fmt-id>' statement. Please give the new cabrillo code a thorough test. I am mainly interested in: - Does it work for the standard contests with your old logs? - Is the description of the used 'cabrillo.fmt' file and the way to define new cabrillo formats in 'README.cabrillo' clearly written and understandable? As I am no native english speaker please have a look for corrections of the wording in that text. - As we support a limited set of keywords to describe what to put into the log file (DATE, TIME, QSL-S, ...) please make sure that you can describe all cabrillo formats for all of your contests. Give feedback if more keywords are needed. !ATTENTION! As with all tlf-1.2 version be aware that it will convert your old log files to the new format. So back them up of before trying use the new version. Feedback is highly welcome. 73 es gd DX in 2013, de Tom DL1JBE. -- "Do what is needful!" Ursula LeGuin: Earthsea -- _______________________________________________ Tlf-devel mailing list Tlf-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tlf-devel
