On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 1:56 PM Gavin Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 07:21:05AM -0800, Raymond Toy wrote: > > Oh, and for the record, look at > > https://cmucl.common-lisp.dev/doc/encycmuclopedia/devenv/cim.ps for the > > original Scribe version. Look at the bottom of page 7. > > > > For the conversion, see the bottom of page 6 of > > https://cmucl.common-lisp.dev/docs/hem/cim/cim.pdf > > > > just so the various bits are in the correct index. > > Interesting to see the Scribe document - I don't think I've seen one > before. > I've only ever seen 2 such docs. I googled all over to find any kind of description of Scribe but failed. Fortunately, there was the source doc along with the PS file, so I just kind of reverse-engineered what Scribe did to find a Texinfo equivalent. The languages are surprisingly similar. > > I think that @deffn and @defvrx etc. could be mixed, although > the @def* commands have long been an area where changes could be > made to be more general. See the TODO file in the git repository. > If we had some way of explicitly specifying the index that a @def* > command would use, then this would solve this problem. > -- Ray
