Re: Annex I?

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message
news:wccoecyzfar.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com...
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> You should see the ugly hackery that was necessary to get the paragraph
> numbers to look like the Ada 83 ones.  Perl scripts for both
> preprocessing the input to Scribe, and postprocessing the output.
> Randy has since switched to a completely different system.

...which is an Ada program that directly generates HTML and RTF from input
very similar to the old Scribe. (I only changed it when I couldn't figure
out how to implement the original code.)

But you should see the ugly hackery that is necessary in the RTF output to
get the paragraph numbers to show up in the right place automatically. It
took me a lot of attempts to find something that would work *and* not crash
Word when it is read. (Word still has problems displaying the RTF properly,
although simply saving the RTF as a DOC file and reloading it causes it to
work just fine. Bizarre.)

The HTML doesn't suffer from *those* problems, but the paragraph numbers
disappear on some older browsers (hopefully no new ones). The more things
change, the more they stay the same, I guess.

                     Randy Brukardt.