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* Explicitly bless in the documentation, and fix in the man backend,Simon Tatham2004-08-06
| | | | | | | the practice of using \dt and \dd in anything other than the obvious interleaving. [originally from svn r4417]
* Sort out error handling everywhere a charset name is converted intoSimon Tatham2004-06-27
| | | | | | an integer charset ID. [originally from svn r4317]
* s/text-quotes/man-quotes/. Damn cut and paste. Thanks Jacob.Simon Tatham2004-06-16
| | | | [originally from svn r4288]
* Switch the memory allocation macros from the Halibut onesSimon Tatham2004-06-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | (mknew/mknewa/resize) to the PuTTY ones (snew/snewn/sresize). snewn and mknewa have their arguments opposite ways round; this may make the change initially painful but in the long term will free me of a nasty context switch every time I move between codebases. Also sresize takes an explicit type operand which is used to cast the return value from realloc, thus enforcing that it must be correct, and arranging that if anyone tries to compile Halibut with a C++ compiler there should be a lot less pain. [originally from svn r4276]
* Configurable bullet and quote characters for the man backend.Simon Tatham2004-05-23
| | | | [originally from svn r4247]
* Charset support for the man page backend (\cfg{man-charset}).Simon Tatham2004-04-21
| | | | [originally from svn r4112]
* Infrastructure changes for character set support. ustrtoa,Simon Tatham2004-04-20
| | | | | | | | | | | ustrfroma, utoa_dup and ufroma_dup now take a charset parameter, and also have a variety of subtly distinct forms. Also, when a \cfg directive is seen in the input file, the precise octet strings for each parameter are kept in their original form as well as being translated into Unicode, so that when they represent filenames they can be used verbatim. [originally from svn r4097]
* Better robustness when backends encounter a Unicode character notSimon Tatham2004-04-19
| | | | | | representable in the output character set. [originally from svn r4094]
* Initial work on PS and PDF output. Because these two backends shareSimon Tatham2004-04-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | an enormous amount of preprocessing and differ only in their final output form, I've introduced a new type of layer called a `pre-backend' (bk_paper.c is one). This takes all the information passed to a normal backend and returns an arbitrary void *, which is cached by the front end and passed on to any backend(s) which state a desire for the output of that particular pre-backend. Thus, all the page layout is done only once, and the PS and PDF backends process the same data structures into two output files. Note that these backends are _very_ unfinished; all sorts of vital things such as section numbers, list markers, and title formatting are missing, the paragraph justification doesn't quite work, and advanced stuff like indexes and PDF interactive features haven't even been started. But this basic framework generates valid output files and is a good starting point, so I'm checking it in. [originally from svn r4058]
* Arrange a mechanism whereby each backend can be passed a filenameSimon Tatham2004-04-01
| | | | | | | | | from its command-line option (`--text=foo.txt') and automatically convert it into one or more notional \cfg directives. In the HTML case this mechanism enables single-file mode as well as setting the filename. [originally from svn r4018]
* Add \cfg / -C directives to allow the user to choose the output fileSimon Tatham2004-04-01
| | | | | | name (or name schema, in HTML). [originally from svn r4017]
* Simplify treatment of the copyright notice, now I've also simplifiedSimon Tatham2004-03-30
| | | | | | | | | the preamble: \copyright paragraphs are now treated identically to normal paragraphs (so they appear precisely where they're put instead of in a fixed location), _except_ that the Windows Help backend also copies their text into the help file's copyright slot. [originally from svn r4001]
* Obsoleted the `\preamble' command. Preamble text is now taken to beSimon Tatham2004-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | any ordinary displayable paragraph(s) appearing before the first chapter heading, meaning in particular that you can put lists, code paragraphs etc in preambles. Of course, `\preamble' is still supported for backwards compatibility, but it's now a zero-effect paragraph marker. [originally from svn r3981]
* Add a \quote{...} directive, working like <blockquote> in HTML.Simon Tatham2004-03-25
| | | | [originally from svn r3978]
* Apparently we must include the .TH directive in a man page even whenSimon Tatham2004-03-25
| | | | | | there's nothing to go in it. [originally from svn r3977]
* Cleanups to complete the man page backend. Also, an additional newSimon Tatham2004-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | markup feature: a \c line in a code paragraph can now be followed by an optional \e line indicating emphasised bits of its preceding \c. This allows discretionary bolding and (italic/underline) emphasis within code paragraphs, but without introducing an escape character or breaking any existing input files. Users are warned that not all backends are required to actually render these hints, and so they should avoid depending on them 100% to convey semantic information unless they know they're writing for a restricted range of backends. [originally from svn r3965]
* Man-page back end for Halibut. Also, a couple of additional markupSimon Tatham2004-03-23
features commonly used in man pages: (a) the ability to nest paragraph breaks, code paragraphs and other lists inside list items, and (b) description lists as normally used in man pages to describe command-line options. [originally from svn r3954]