Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> writes:
> Richard> The current documentation setup is unfortunately kept rather separate
> Richard> from the code that is read into memory by load() or batch(). This is
> Richard> partly a relic of an earlier time when memory was a scarce resource,
> Richard> and partly that the processing of text is being done by other programs
> Richard> in a batch operation... at least as far as I understand it. But
> Richard> I haven't really tracked the various modifications of the routines.
>
> Yes, that's basically it. But there is a git branch where all of the
> parsing is done using Lisp.
Yep, and the feature would be very easy to add on that branch, because I
separated out the "how to provide documentation" stuff a bit
further. But I got bored of pushing the branch at everyone since it
needs testing on Windows and I didn't have a Windows machine to test
everything on. I've managed to install a virtual XP instance on an old
laptop, but haven't spent the time getting everything to build yet. And
it's all horrendously painful and not fun at all. Bleugh.
Of course, anyone else is very welcome to have a go... :-)
Rupert
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