lout microwish and advice

[Basile STARYNKEVITCH]

I have a wish and a concrete problem with Lout

* The wish

Make lout compatible with C (or m4) preprocessor

a) parse cpp #line comment

b) parse cpp output # 50 "file/path.lt" 

(both wish are the same, parse some specific comments as containing
line synchronization data)

c) have a lout flag to invoke cpp as a preprocessor with some
arguments 

d) accept an alternative for # in Lout strings. E.g. code in lout
"sharp sign=\S" instead of "sharp sign=\#"  - there should be a syntax
for strings such as # is always a comment and " always a string
delimiter!



* my concrete problem:

I'm in a hurry writing a report -qgibian.lt. (I'm actually alreadly
late). Unfortunately, my finger slips sometimes -partly because on
french keyboards the {} requires pressing the AltGr key- so sometimes
I have mismatched {}

When a there is a missing ] in practice bad things happens
for instance, my whole document used to be 30 printed pages long, and
although the lout file didn't change a lot, it is nearly empty now!
I probably forgot a closing } or an @End somewere.

Does anyone have an advice on how hunting these things.

I also noticed that sometimes the associated qgibian.ld file gets very
big, and Lout processing time goes from O(n) to O(n^2)
suddenly. (typically from 10 to 100 seconds on my PentiumPro200)

I also noticed that having macros or definition which expends to
something containing index entries does work well always.

So any concrete advice on matching all brackets { } and @Begin @End?
(eg a structure-aware emacs lout mode  somewhere?)



N.B. Any opinions expressed here are solely mine, and not of my organization.
N.B. Les opinions exprimees ici me sont personnelles et n engagent pas le CEA.


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