On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 02:17:34PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > What I'm saying is: most of the file doesn't need passes 5 (divert) and 9 > > (slices). The line 897 is the only one that uses slices: > > > > <vendor Linpus Technologies[ZH: ¦Ê¸ê¬ì§Þ:] "LinuxShop"[ZH: Linux > > ±M½æ©±:]> > > > > So we could also skip pass 9 for everything but that line. > > No, have a look at vendors.CD.def, all macros need translations. With > wml -p1-8 -D CUR_YEAR=2000 vendors.wml > you see what input is passed to pass 9.
Right, sorry, I didn't notice. > Unfortunately <protect> tags cannot be nested, and this misbehaviour has > not been fixed yet :( :( I didn't know pass=x,y worked, though, the manual page (from 1.7.4) said "When you use pass then SPEC can be either #-, -#, #-# or just # while # can be between 1 and 9.". > I am not sure if it is worth trying to fix this long time processing, a > much useful job would be to split this file (vendors.en.html is 120KB). Agreed. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
