* David Kastrup (2006-01-14) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> * David Kastrup (2006-01-14) writes:
>>
>>> The problem is what kind of opening parens and what kind of closing
>>> parens we are going to take as gospel.  I don't see a sane way around
>>> accepting "(PNG ", so I have to accept ")>" as well given that we have
>>> to deal with the [expletive deleted] new output ideas from PDFTeX.  It
>>> is not like AUCTeX is the only TeX shell with that problem, so I
>>> consider this a bit of an inconsideration on part of the PDFTeX
>>> developers.
>>
>> Hm, what about skipping over content in square brackets?
>
> You probably mean angle brackets?

That wouldn't make much difference unless we use the informaton which
is in square brackets but not in angle brackets.

>> That means as soon as an opening square bracket is encountered
>> during parsing the only next token to be looked for is its closing
>> bracket.
>
> Uh, it's bad enough if we get confused about random parens in the
> output.  Getting confused about random angle brackets in addition is
> not really going to help much in curing the problem.

Hm, you got a point.

>>> I am afraid that this play on German will be incomprehensible to
>>> most readers of this group.  Including myself, by the way.
>>
>> Man, I gotta work on my humor.
>
> It's ok, Spock.

At least you didn't answer with "He's dead, Jim."

-- 
Ralf



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