On 23/03/14 13:44, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
I would like to do new release within a month. Actually,
there is long time without a release so I would like to
do it as fast as possible. But there is a bunch of
issues reported. If possible I would like to get
some new code finished. And there are some structural
changes (in particular releated to OutputForm) that
should go into new release. So, it will probably
take a month.
Waldek,
Please could you add this formatter to the next release:
https://github.com/martinbaker/multivector/blob/master/monospace.spad.pamphlet
The documentation is here:
http://www.euclideanspace.com/maths/standards/program/mycode/output/monospace/
(this contains diagrams that I can't put in the pamphlet)
Its just an optional output formatter with the same structure as the
other formatters. This is designed to output to a monospace device such
as the command line console.
I know you and Ralf are determined to translate i-output.boot to SPAD by
a literal translation directly from the boot code (good luck with that).
This code is completely independent of that, there is no suggestion here
of ever making this the default console output.
The aim of this is to use as the template for more specialist monospace
formatters. It would really help me develop this if you could put it in
the next release.
Also you could look at this as a form of insurance, if you run into
problems doing a literal transpose of i-output.boot, or if the code
produced turns out to be difficult to modify or badly documented, then
you would keep open the option of developing this.
As it stands I think the code here does a reasonable job of displaying
all the various types of expressions in FriCAS, although it is not
perfect. It does not yet handle line wrapping very well, as you pointed
out this is difficult to do, but I'm not convinced that it is as
difficult as you suggest. The program currently generates an array of
Character and then outputs this array to the output device. I could
easily check the width of this array and, if greater than the line
width, choose a place to divide it that does not break apart numbers or
names.
Please could you let me know what you think, if you don't want to
include this in the next release, then I will find something else to
work on.
Martin
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