Re: response to Joerg Jung's posting

Mark Summerfield <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.type-setting.lout
Organization Qtrac Ltd.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

Just commenting on a few of Joerg's items.

On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:59:01 +0200
Joerg Jung <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip]
> I understand, that a generic/clean final fixing for @DP is not possible 
> due to several (historic) reasons. But, I think the unpredictable @DP
> between Captions and Figures/Tables/Floaters (depending on the chosen
> Location) should be replaced by // for consistency reasons.

The workaround I use for this is:

    @Floater
	@Location{ ... }
    @Figure
	@Location{Raw}
    ...

[snip]
> >> @Python misses """ comments """, a short look into the code suggests,
> >> that this is probably simple to fix. 
> > 
> > I rely on the users of these languages to maintain them.  If anyone
> > wants to post a fix, I'll take it on.

I think that's my bad but I don't have time to fix this.

[snip]
> >> Shell/logfile and plain listing style is missing. Workaround: I
> >> re-used Haskell.
> > 
> > Or just "@F @Verbatim" is often a good fallback.
> 
> But Verbatim does not provide Line numbers. I want that all my listings 
> look similar and that I can reference line numbers in the text
> description. Anyway, maybe someone comes up with a shell for prg2lout
> diff at some day.

One solution might be to have @BareLanguage which is just like @CP,
@Python, etc., but does not have any highlighting.

[snip]


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