Re: lynx-dev new version of structured description ... patch

[Leonid Pauzner]

18-May-99 07:48 Vlad Harchev wrote:
> On Tue, 18 May 1999, Leonid Pauzner wrote:

>> 16-May-99 17:06 Vlad Harchev wrote:
>> >  The patch that integrates all modifications and that is ready for pre3 was
>> > placed at
>>
>> >   http://www.hippo.ru/~hvv/lynx/patch1.01.gz
>>

>  IMO lynx_help/lynxcfg/*.html are worth including in the pre5 even
> without support for LYNXSETTINGSTATUS:// so lynx-devers and users will check
> them.
Sure, agree (where Tom?).

>  They can be referenced in a lot of places in present *.html files.
...depending on the availability of lynx_help/lynxcfg/*


>> 3) many lines in body.html source begins with different offsets,
>>   e.g. inside the same paragraph. IMHO it could be done by maintaining
>>   'description' sections in plain HTML (in your body.in template),
>>   leaving headers, 'default value' and 'status' sections to your scripts 
>> only.
>>   In general, lynx users more comfortable with HTML than with hairy scripts.
>>   (there will not be any problem until you maintain body.in, but in future?)

>  As for future, I don't think syntax of body.in is so complex. I can describe
> the syntaxt in more details. And cpp knoweledge is useful thing anyway :) As
> for scripts - seems that they are stabialized - they won't change
> signtifically.

>  IMO it will be better to reformat *.html by some html beatifiers rather than
> trying to do this by hand. Have anybody heard about such tools?
>  I'm seriously thinking of writing a set of CPP macros that will generate
> linuxdoc SGML DTD source from body.in - that can be converted to rtf (this
> means inserted into MSWORD, MS Help format), latex (and to dvi and ps from it)
(you lost hypertext referenses with .dvi or .ps)
> and to lyx. Those converted versions should be placed on lynx home page of
> course.
>  Independance of the markup language is a great thing. And if 'Description'
> will be kept in html, then the body.in will be much larger and much more

Well, OK.
Please look into body.html and search for <br> :
all instances appears after </h2>, </h3>, <p> by some screw reason.

> difficult to maintain (from my POV) (reducing ablity to convert it to 
> something
> else).

>  Best regards,
>   -Vlad