2014-09-21 17:06 GMT-03:00 Yves Cloutier <
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> Hello Oleg,
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> Thank you for your recommendations too. I actually just came back from the local library where I picked up "The Scheme Programming Language".
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> You know, reading through your reply, it was the last part that made me think about something.
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> If I can convert my input to the format:
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> (bold "text")
> (indent 5 "text")
> (bold (smallcap (size 2 "text")))
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> Could I not define each of these as functions (or procedures), and then just call an (eval ' ) procedure to do my output?
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> For example (keeping in mind I'm only just getting familiar with Scheme syntax!):
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> (define (bold (text)
> (print the opening tag for the command 'bold')
> (print the string 'text')
> (print the closing tag for the command 'bold'))
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> (define (indent (indent-value text)
> (print the opening tag for the command 'indent' with value of 'indent-value')
> (print the string 'text')
> (print the closing tag for the command 'indent'))
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> Actually due to the possible presence of nested commands, it should probably be something more generic, since in the last example:
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> (bold (smallcap (size 2 "text")))
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> what the procedure 'bold' would be taking in is not a string "text", but rather an _expression_...so this is where I guess things would need to be recursive.
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> Once my document has been converted into one big "s-_expression_", and procedures defined accordingly, then I could just (eval ) it..couldn't I?
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> (eval '(bold "text")
> (indent 5 "text")
> (bold (smallcap (size 2 "text"))))
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> Or something along those lines?
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> If this is the case....brilliant!
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