Re: Verbatim / prettyprinting in mkIV

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Matthijs Kooijman wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been struggling with verbatim printing in MkIV for a while now and found
> some confusing things. I did finally get things working, but after quite some
> effort. I'd like to hear if my conclusions are correct, perhaps I can put them
> on the wiki then.

mkiv only has tex, mp and lua pretty printing and uses a different 
method than mkii (the mkii pretty print files are not used at all)

> --make". However, there is a second file, buff-ver.mkiv which closely
> resembles core-ver.mkiv and which is loaded. An important difference, however,
> is that buff-ver loads pret-foo instead of verb-foo (or rather, uses the value
> of \f!prettyprefix, which is set to "pret-" in mult-sys.tex).

indeed, as part of the split (and code freeze of mkii) some core-* files 
have been regrouped

> So, my main question was, are the verb-*.lua and core-ver.text files still
> used in any way? 

no

(it's no problem to add more mkiv pretty printers; one can take the lua 
one as template)

Hans

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