docstrip_util(n) Literate programming tool docstrip_util(n)______________________________________________________________________________NAMEdocstrip_util - Docstrip-related utilities
SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl 8.4
package require docstrip::util ?1.2?
docstrip::util::ddt2man text
docstrip::util::guards subcmd text
docstrip::util::thefile filename ?option value ...?
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
The docstrip::util package is meant for collecting various utility pro‐
cedures that may be useful for developers who make use of the docstrip
package in some projects. It is separate from the main package to avoid
overhead for end-users.
COMMANDS
docstrip::util::ddt2man text
The ddt2man command reformats text from the general docstrip
format to doctools ".man" format (Tcl Markup Language for Man‐
pages). The different line types are treated as follows:
comment and metacomment lines
The '%' and '%%' prefixes are removed, the rest of the
text is kept as it is.
empty lines
These are kept as they are. (Effectively this means that
they will count as comment lines after a comment line and
as code lines after a code line.)
code lines
example_begin and example_end commands are placed at the
beginning and end of every block of consecutive code
lines. Brackets in a code line are converted to lb and rb
commands.
verbatim guards
These are processed as usual, so they do not show up in
the result but every line in a verbatim block is treated
as a code line.
other guards
These are treated as code lines, except that the actual
guard is emphasised.
At the time of writing, no project has employed doctools markup in mas‐
ter source files, so experience of what works well is not available. A
source file could however look as follows
% [manpage_begin gcd n 1.0]
% [moddesc {Greatest Common Divisor}]
% [require gcd [opt 1.0]]
% [description]
%
% [list_begin definitions]
% [call [cmd gcd] [arg a] [arg b]]
% The [cmd gcd] procedure takes two arguments [arg a] and [arg b] which
% must be integers and returns their greatest common divisor.
proc gcd {a b} {
% The first step is to take the absolute values of the arguments.
% This relieves us of having to worry about how signs will be treated
% by the remainder operation.
set a [expr {abs($a)}]
set b [expr {abs($b)}]
% The next line does all of Euclid's algorithm! We can make do
% without a temporary variable, since $a is substituted before the
% [lb]set a $b[rb] and thus continues to hold a reference to the
% "old" value of [var a].
while {$b>0} { set b [expr { $a % [set a $b] }] }
% In Tcl 8.3 we might want to use [cmd set] instead of [cmd return]
% to get the slight advantage of byte-compilation.
%<tcl83> set a
%<!tcl83> return $a
}
% [list_end]
%
% [manpage_end]
If the above text is (suitably unindented and) fed through doc‐
strip::util::ddt2man then the result will be a syntactically correct
doctools manpage, even though its purpose is a bit different.
It is suggested that master source code files with doctools markup are
given the suffix ".ddt", hence the "ddt" in ddt2man.
docstrip::util::guards subcmd text
The guards command returns information (mostly of a statistical
nature) about the ordinary docstrip guards that occur in the
text. The subcmd selects what is returned.
counts List the guard expression terminals with counts. The for‐
mat of the return value is a dictionary which maps the
terminal name to the number of occurencies of it in the
file.
exprcount
List the guard expressions with counts. The format of the
return value is a dictionary which maps the expression to
the number of occurencies of it in the file.
exprerr
List the syntactically incorrect guard expressions (e.g.
parentheses do not match, or a terminal is missing). The
return value is a list, with the elements in no particu‐
lar order.
expressions
List the guard expressions. The return value is a list,
with the elements in no particular order.
exprmods
List the guard expressions with modifiers. The format of
the return value is a dictionary where each index is a
guard expression and each entry is a string with one
character for every guard line that has this expression.
The characters in the entry specify what modifier was
used in that line: +, -, *, /, or (for guard without mod‐
ifier:) space. This is the most primitive form of the
information gathered by guards.
names List the guard expression terminals. The return value is
a list, with the elements in no particular order.
rotten List the malformed guard lines (this does not include
lines where only the expression is malformed, though).
The format of the return value is a dictionary which maps
line numbers to their contents.
docstrip::util::thefile filename ?option value ...?
The thefile command opens the file filename, reads it to end,
closes it, and returns the contents. The option-value pairs are
passed on to fconfigure to configure the open file channel
before anything is read from it.
SEE ALSO
docstrip, doctools, doctools_fmt
KEYWORDSCATEGORY
Documentation tools
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2003-2005 Lars Hellström <Lars dot Hellstrom at residenset dot net>
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