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[Sam Liddicott <address@hidden>]

Currently the macros are very slow on long documents, and each keystroke 
can take seconds to process on documents of 100 pages.

Sam

On 02/09/11 08:01, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> On 01/09/11 11:03, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> > Dear Sam,
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 05:34:03PM +0100, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> > > I've done some more work on my fangle literate programming
> > > (http://www.nongnu.org/fangle/)
> > >
> > > I've completed the first TeXmacs part of the getting started guide
> > > at 
> > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/fangle.git/tree/docs/getting-started.pdf
> > > which leads through production of this document 
> > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/fangle.git/tree/docs/examples/hello-world.pdf
> > >
> > > I would appreciate it very much if those who find these two PDF
> > > interesting would try it out.
> > >
> > > A fuller version of hello-world is available that explains the
> > > features from the readers point of view instead of the authors:
> > > http://www.nongnu.org/fangle/examples/hello-world.pdf
> > >
> > > Fangle works well with TeXmacs and I use it every day for writing
> > > and documenting software.
> > >
> > > There's still some features crippled by notable bugs, such as
> > > inability to properly include commas in parameters (it's supposed to
> > > work) and the fact that including a text chunk in a #-marked comment
> > > doesn't prefix all lines with # (it's supposed to work, along with $
> > > quoting for text included in makefiles and so on).
> > Thanks for posting your work, which looks promising,
> > despite a few problems with the macros on my system.
>
> Most problems I know of are fixed with a few document->update-all 
> invocations. Remaining problems are due to the non-purging of stale 
> labels, but my git commit filter clears labels and toc from the 
> document anyway so this doesn't bite me.
>
> If there are other problems with the macro's I'd love to know.
>
> > You should try to encapsulate your work in a plug-in,
> > with keyboard shortcuts, menus, and in which the nf-chunk
> > can be added to the enumerate tags during the initialization
> > (even better would be to add the line numbers automatically,
> > of course). I also miss a menu item or keyboard shortcut
> > for generating the target files from within TeXmacs.
> >
> > Notice that plug-ins can document themselves from version 1.0.7.12 on.
>
> I will do a plugin to add nf-chunk o the enumerate tags, and do some 
> keyboard shortcuts.
>
> I would like to make rendering line numbers as part of mode=prog 
> rendering, with|prog-counter|... to tell it which counter to use.
> I also want to have the syntax highlighting of mode=prog to traverse 
> the named chunk and any inclusions.
>
> Thanks for your input, I appreciate it.
>
> > Best, --Joris