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Re: doc fixes (sed script)



Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> wrote:

> Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> wrote:
>
>> Yes, see http://pkg-tetex.alioth.debian.org/, the design of which was
>> taken from the teTeX documentation.
>
> Okay.
>
>> I wouldn't mind a Build-Dep on Python.  I have never written Python, but
>> from the scripts I wrote i got the impression that its well readable

s/wrote/read/ of course, but I guess everybody understood it.

>> even if you don't know it, so extending regex'es in the future shouldn't
>> be a problem.
>
> Yes, its readability is one of its strong points. Some say Python is
> "compilable pseudo-code", and I can attest it's often true.
>
> I'll think about it, but it's not for this evening, because it's a bit
> non-trivial. 

Alternatively, do you have a list of false negatives, so that we could
add explicit sed expressions for the time being?  A LaTeX parser in
python is probably not what should be developed in the framework of
Debian TeXLive packaging...

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)



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