lynx-dev lynxcfg.html ideas

[Leonid Pauzner]

2-Jun-99 12:12 Vlad Harchev wrote:

>   Anyway, I done conversion in ~8 hours of one day, so I was so tired to make
> spelling errors.
>   I'll place body.in and the patch to my homepage soon and will announce
> lynx-dev about location.

Thinking a little more on it I found out that we may want
a more Spartan design for lynxcfg.html by the cost of having
an automatic conversion lynx.cfg <-> lynxcfg.html as expected.

My proposal is to write two tiny C programs (I am not familiar with sed)
which read one file and generate another based on the assumptions
of first (few) characters of each line. I will try to do this tomorrow.

The convertion lynx.cfg -> lynxcfg.html
based on lynx.cfg lines syntax looks like this
(rules applied in order):


1) the line is blank (or spases or tabs only) - may be a sign of
a delimiter between different logical sections. may be not (?)

2) the line begins with character != '#' - an active option,
the name ended with ':' delimiter.

3) the line begins with character == '#' and next coming
character exist and not a space or tab - inactive option,
the name ended with ':' delimiter.

both 2) and 3) may be found several times in lynx.cfg but assumed
from the same section.


Others lines belongs to comments and begins with "#" symbol.

4) no characters after '#' (except probably a number of spaces/ or tabs only) -
a sign of starting a new paragraph in the comment - [markup].

5) more than one space or a tab after '#' (text not flushed left) -
a sign of authors markup - [show verbatim].

6) the comment strings begins with "# " and no more tabs or spaces before
next coming text - no special markup, [the text may be formated to any display
width].


Now we only need to *guess* the start/end of each section and its name
based on rules 1) 2) 3).

Also we may add manually a sweety murkup for <em>... </em> etc.
and set a logical sections names according to lynxcfg_toc.html (hmm),
also do something with the default values and "see also" section
if we want to be smart enough.  Without this sweety things we got
a Spartan design but automatic procedure both ways.