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Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

> Ed L. Cashin wrote:
> 
> > That is an ambitious goal.  BTW, last night I gave a presentation on
> > perl programming to UGA's ACM, and many people there were very
> 
> I suppose you are aware of 
> 
> \startPL
>   sub SomePerl 
>     { $this = "nothing" }  
> \stopPL 
> 
> which combined with \setupcolor[state=start] gives you a more fancy
> output. 

No, I wasn't aware of that feature.  It's very interesting.  I was
using a method like this:

    \def\displayfile#1#2{%
            \startlinenumbering
            \typefile{#1}
            \stoplinenumbering\page}

(#2 was a short name, its use is not shown here) I very much like the
way it handles tabs.  I compared the two methods:

        http://www.coe.uga.edu/~ecashin/temp/perltest/

... and I noticed that the formatting looks nicer with \typefile
because of the way it handles tabs.  Tabs are kind of weird.  I should
look at the code for \typefile for educational purposes.

The green in the \startPL version is a bit hard to read, but I suppose
that's configurable.

-- 
--Ed Cashin                     PGP public key:
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