Literary — DistressNetwork°

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The treatment of whitespace within formatting and configuration commands is currently rather strict, as no trimming of leading or trailing whitespace around the command contents is applied. This may be changed for the sake of convenience, at the expense of added parsing complexity.
A ‘prefix’ mode where all text section lines and formatting commands are started with a certain prefix token which is recognized and omitted from the output. When the prefix specified is the line comment prefix of the programming language being used, this would allow for the use of conventional syntax highlighting while editing literate source code files.

diff --git a/software/literary/src.md b/software/literary/src.md index a008409..de3c44f 100755 --- a/software/literary/src.md +++ b/software/literary/src.md @@ -94,3 +94,4 @@ The source code of this tool is rendered as a set of literate program documents, # Future Work - The treatment of whitespace within formatting and configuration commands is currently rather strict, as no trimming of leading or trailing whitespace around the command contents is applied. This may be changed for the sake of convenience, at the expense of added parsing complexity. +- A 'prefix' mode where all text section lines and formatting commands are started with a certain prefix token which is recognized and omitted from the output. When the prefix specified is the line comment prefix of the programming language being used, this would allow for the use of conventional syntax highlighting while editing literate source code files. -- cgit v1.2.3