Re: make_text related scanning improvements
Taco Hoekwater <[email protected]> Fri, 18 May 2018 11:22:17 +0200
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Hi, > On 18 May 2018, at 11:15, Hans Hagen <[email protected]> wrote: > > changing fundamentals like this nearly always have side effects ... you cannot always know how these tools are used (for decades) ... you solve one problem and introduces a new one .. such is the world of tex / mp As the original ‘author’ of the reimplementation I can attest to that! It took half a dozen minor adjustments to the reimplementation just to make it compatible with pre-existing metapost source files, due to subtle differences between the Pascal and C handling of whitespace. I am not saying the code cannot be improved at all, but it seems likely that any changes at this point will have side-effects that break already existing metapost source files. Best wishes, Taco -- http://tug.org/metapost/