Re: Module documentation

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 06:29 PM 12/30/00 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>I recently began "playing" with the TeXexec --module capabilities, and lo! I
>have a a couple of hints :-)
>
>It would be nice if \input'ed files could be (at the user's choice) be
>processed at together with the main files, if they are modules (e.g., there
>would be not much to do on plain.mp included by metafun.mp, but it would be
>nice if all the others were typeset too; in such a case (or even _not_ in
>such a case), \input's could be turned to links.

That would lead to quite bug files over here -) 

I can put the link on the todo list. It will never be watertight, since
there is no way to find out alternative inputs. 

>Also, I would like to signal a couple of bugs
>
>a) double %D %D bug in metafun.mp;

bug. 

>1) syntax highlighting is too aggressive: filenames should not be syntax
>highlighted (I mean mp-char.mp has "char" highlighted);

This is a bug but hard to catch since a-b is syntactically right, and i
cannot [like wirh strings] use " as signals.  

>2) it seems that some modules use cont-nl, while other use cont-en
>(specifically for the latter: mp-tool has a \quote command, which is not
>recognized; core-fnt has a \getbuffer whici is not recognized);

For the moment cont-nl indeed, so i need to change that. 

>enough by now ...
>
>(Hans, shall I post other bugs I find publicly, or do you want them sent
>separately?)

separate mail is probably less boring for other list members; real context
core-bugs can go to the list

Hans
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