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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:44:05 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:44:05 +0000 |
commit | d318611dd6f23fcfedd50e9b9e24620b102ba96a (patch) | |
tree | 8b9eef82ca40fdd5a8deeabf07572074c236095d /src/preproc/refer/TODO | |
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Adding upstream version 1.23.0.upstream/1.23.0upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/src/preproc/refer/TODO b/src/preproc/refer/TODO new file mode 100644 index 0000000..36f4508 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/preproc/refer/TODO @@ -0,0 +1,124 @@ +inline references + +Some sort of macro/subroutine that can cover several references. + +move-punctuation should ignore multiple punctuation characters. + +Make the index files machine independent. + +Allow search keys to be negated (with !) to indicate that the +reference should not contain the key. Ignore negated keys during +indexed searching. + +Provide an option with lkbib and lookbib that prints the location +(filename, position) of each reference. Need to map filename_id's +back to filenames. + +Rename join-authors to join-fields. Have a separate label-join-fields +command used by @ and #. + +Have some sort of quantifier: e.g., $.n#A means execute '$.n' for each +instance of an A field, setting $ to that field, and then join the +results using the join-authors command. + +no-text-in-bracket command which says not to allow post_text and +pre_text when the [] flags has been given. Useful for superscripted +footnotes. + +Make it possible to translate - to \(en in page ranges. + +Trim eign a bit. + +In indexed searching discard all numeric keys except dates. + +Allow '\ ' to separate article from first word. + +%also + +Option automatically to supply [] flags in every reference. + +See if we can avoid requiring a comma before jr. and so on +in find_last_name(). + +Cache sortified authors in authors string during tentative evaluation of +label specification. + +Possibly don't allow * and % expressions in the first part of ?:, | or +& expressions. + +Handle better the case where <> occurs inside functions and in the +first operand of ~. Or perhaps implement <> using some magic character +in the string. + +Should special treatment be given to lines beginning with . in +references? (Unix refer seems to treat them like '%'). + +Add global flag to control whether all files should be stat-ed after +loading, and whether they should be stat-ed before each search. +Perhaps make this dependent on the number of files there are. + +Option to truncate keys to truncate_len in linear searching. + +Allow multiple -f options in indxbib. + +In indxbib, possibly store common words rather than common words +filename. In this case store only words that are actually present in +the file. + +Perhaps we should put out an obnoxious copyright message when lookbib +starts up. + +Provide an option that writes a file containing just the references +actually used. Useful if you want to distribute a document. + +Have a magic token such that +%A <sort stuff><magic token><print stuff> +will print as though it were +%A <print stuff> +but sort as though it were +%A <sort stuff> +Do we need this if we can specify author alternatives for sorting? +No, provided we have separate alternatives for @. + +In consider_authors when last names are ambiguous we might be able to +use just the first name and not Jr. bit. Or we might be able to +abbreviate the author. + +It ought to be possible to specify an alternative field to sort on +instead of date. (ie if there's a field giving the type of document -- +these references should sort after any years) + +Provide a way to execute a command using a command-line option. + +Option to set the label-spec as a command-line option (-L). + +Command to specify which fields can occur multiple times: +multiple AE + +Command to specify how various fields sort: +aort-as-name A +sort-as-date D +sort-as-title T +sort-as-other O + +Command to specify which fields are author fields: +# if we don't have A use field Q +author-fields AQ + +Commands to set properties of tokens. +sortify-token \(ae ae +uppercase-token \[ae] \[AE] + +Command to set the names of months: +months january february march april may ... + +Perhaps provide some sort of macro capability: +# perhaps a macro capability +defmacro foo +annotation-field $1 +endef + +Command to control strings used in capitalization +capitalize-start \s+2 +capitalize-end \s-2 +(perhaps make these arguments to the capitalize command.) |