[29 Apr 2007] formatted text

[lazi]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:14:45 +0100

Hello Andreas!

My didkmag has got a problem with the new text processor. I have to make every square bracket doubled before print the article.

However this is a great feature for such tasks, but this project is made without this one in mind.

It would be great if this on-the-fly text formatting could be enabled/disabled from the script. PLease let me know what do think about this!

[airsoftsoftwair]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:25:32 +0200

Hello Andreas!

My didkmag has got a problem with the new text processor. I have to make every square bracket doubled before print the article.

However this is a great feature for such tasks, but this project is made without this one in mind.

It would be great if this on-the-fly text formatting could be enabled/disabled from the script. PLease let me know what do think about this!

Hmm, not likely. I would have to implement a new command for that which I don't want to do. I can't just add an optional argument because commands like Print() and NPrint() accept an unlimited number of arguments and thus there is no place for an optional argument which says "don't use autoformat".

[lazi]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Sun, 27 May 2007 00:24:26 +0100

Hi!

I've just made an elegant solution for the discussed problem which shows the real power in Hollywood. I am so excited about this ability so I share with you.

Andreas, you do not need to implement another print command, when I am able to implement it from the script.

So, I changed the behaviour of the print command to not make any text formatting.

Here it comes:

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/* Save the original print command because we need it in the new "print"
function. This is so easy. */
old_print=print

/* Here is the new print function that doubles all [,]
control characters and print the string */
Function print(a$)
 darabok, db=SplitStr(a$,"[")
 a$= darabok[0]
 for i=2 to db do a$= a$ .. "[[" .. darabok[i-1]
 darabok, db=SplitStr(a$,"]")
 a$= darabok[0]
 for i=2 to db do a$= a$ .. "]]" .. darabok[i-1]
 old_print (a$)
endfunction     

/* After this line, every print() commands calls the new print
function*/