On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 12:29:08AM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> >>>>> "JRA" == Jay R Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Have I mentioned that I hate that quoting style? :-)
> JRA> Well, no, but you can swim in the Object Orientation, or you
> JRA> can tiptoe through it, and the code I've looked at doesn't
> JRA> look to horribly deep to me.
>
> Python's very cool that way. It makes OOP about as simple as it can
> possibly be. In fact, I think Python would make a wonderful first or
> OOP teaching language. Jeez, at least much better than C++ or Java.
Yeah, well, that dictionary stuff kinda lost me. I guess I'll get
it, from looking at working code...
> JRA> Except make_whatever in Utils; how do you get a hard newline
> JRA> in that damned routine?
>
> You mean Utils.maketext()? You could set raw=1 which says not to pass
> the text to wrap(), and then your template would have to be properly
> wrapped already (if it's a plaintext file), or you'd include <p>'s and
> <br>'s if it's html.
>
> The rules for wrap() are pretty simple. Paragraphs are always filled
> unless the line begins with whitespace. Blank lines separate
> paragraphs. That's it.
>
> But I'll admit that wrap() is a bear of an algorithm, and I fear, too
> fragile to muck with. Still it does the job. Usable, human-friendly
> "structured" plaintext is a /hard/ problem, as anybody who's played
> with Wiki's StructuredText stuff will attest too.
Ah. Ok. Yeah, I ended up indenting one space the stuff I didn't
want wrapped.
> JRA> The template stuff is one of the weak spots in system
> JRA> operator documentation... and the templates could us a touch
> JRA> of work, too -- no offence to whomever's writing that is...
>
> I completely agree.
Noted. It's not an easy problem, as I found out when I tried
rewriting some of them. More When I Know More.
Cheers,
-- jra
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