Re: [Nuweb-users] Comment character

[Simon W. <sim...@ma...>]

Paul,

This feature was introduced by Keith Harwood. It seems odd to me, perhaps Keith will tell us what it's for.

--S

On 10 May 2011, at 13:07, Paul Huygen wrote:

> Dear Simon,
> On Mon, 09 May 2011 18:10:13 +0100, Simon Wright wrote
>> Paul,
>> 
>> I've had a go, attached to this message. It involved a recursive 
>> call to source_get(), not I think a problem on modern machines but 
>> with nuweb you never know!
>> 
>> It works fine with nuweb itself, my web that used the feature, and a 
>> test case 631095.w (also attached).
>> 
>> Can you have a try and see how you get on?
> 
> Great!
> 
> It works on my computer. However, when I tried it on my own project, I
> discovered another "for-me" problem, that probably betrays my sloppiness. I
> have multiple scrap placeholders that refer to nothing. The older nuweb
> versions respond on this with a warning only, but nuweb-1.55 writes the
> placeholder in the output. E.g. when nuweb-1.01 processes the following file
> 
> ---testit.w-----------------------
> \documentclass{article}
> \begin{document}
> @o test.out @{@%
> Some text.
> @< a placeholder that refers to nothing @>
> @| @}
> \end{document}
> ----------------------------------
> 
> , it produces the following "test.out":
> 
> ---test.out----------------------
> Some text.
> 
> ---------------------------------.
> 
> However, nuweb 1.55 produces:
> 
> ---test.out----------------------
> Some text.
> @<a placeholder that refers to nothing@>
> ---------------------------------.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul.
> 
> 
> 
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