Re: [Texmacs-dev] Re: A first step towards a clean spec of LP mode for texmacs

[David MENTRE]

Hi Felix,

I have refreshed my Scheme[1] and wrote some code (see attached
file). 

Consider this as a first draft. Feel free to criticize my style but
don't be too harsh (this is the first Scheme code I have ever written!
;).

Some code could probably be optimized for speed. Right now, I'm just
looking for functionalities.

This Scheme code runs with guile but is currently independant of
TeXmacs (start it with "guile -s lp-code.scm").

David MENTRE <address@hidden> writes:

>> The way I see it right now the objectives are to create
>>
>> 1) overloaded load-save functions for source files with tm-comments

I haven't look at TeXmacs API yet.

Partially done for load/save functions. This code raises two points:

 1. When reading from source, how we should distinguish between
    commented TeXmacs lines and source comments? In attached code, I
    consider commented TeXmacs lines all lines that start with a comment
    on first character. For example:

;<TeXMacs|1.06>  <--- TeXmacs line
 ;               <--- code line
(define ....)    <--- code line

    Should we use a more specific delimiter, like ";tm"?


 2. Right now, I represent parsed code as a list of pairs, the right
    hand side being 'tm or 'code depending on line content. That should
    be rewritten to work with TeXmacs data structure. E.g.:

(define test-scheme-blocks
  '((tm . "<TeXmacs|1.0.6")
    (tm . "<style|generic>")
    (tm . "<\\body>")
    (tm . "<tag|;>")
    (code . "(define (hello-world) (display \"Hello world!\"))")
    (code . "")
    (tm . "</body>")
    ))


>> 2) an import function for plain source files (treating comments as
>>    plain text) - 2) will share a lot of code with 1)

Not done yet.
  
>> 3) a database of commenting syntax (simply as a scheme file)

First attempt provided. We will need to refactor it, for example to
handle languages which have several kinds of comment.

>> 4) create style files that format verbatim blocks nicely (or do we
>>    use the <code> tag as is in TeXmacs?)

We could start with the <code> tag.

>> 4) create convenience functions that split/join verbatim blocks 
>>    (how would you want the user interface for this one to be like?)

A right-click->"Split code line here" would be nice. I don't know if it
can be done easily however.


Best wishes,
d.

Footnotes: 
[1]  I read the R5RS report, found at: 
     http://schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/

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