Disallow a few more characters in file·names

[Shushe] / README.markdown

diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
index 4427c7fed710eb40a5051e147688b77e1f843478..95f6954adf6de627ab19e93c620329efb203f852 100644 (file)
--- a/README.markdown
+++ b/README.markdown
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ In every case, you may supply your own implementation by overriding the
 - `echo`
 - `file`
 - `find`
 - `echo`
 - `file`
 - `find`

+- `git` (optional; set `GIT=` to disable)

 - `mkdir` (requires support for `-p`)
 - `mv`
 - `od` (requires support for `-t x1`)
 - `mkdir` (requires support for `-p`)
 - `mv`
 - `od` (requires support for `-t x1`)


@@ -160,8 +161,8 @@ The following additional variables can be used to control the behaviour
 - **`FINDRULES`:**
   Rules to use with `find` when searching for source files.
   The default ignores hidden files, those that start with a period or
 - **`FINDRULES`:**
   Rules to use with `find` when searching for source files.
   The default ignores hidden files, those that start with a period or

-    hyphen‐minus, and those which contain a pipe, buck, percent, or
-    colon.
+    hyphen‐minus, and those which contain a pipe, buck, percent,
+    bracket, hash, asterisk, eroteme, semi, or colon.

 
 - **`FINDINCLUDERULES`:**
   Rules to use with `find` when searching for includes (default:
 
 - **`FINDINCLUDERULES`:**
   Rules to use with `find` when searching for includes (default:


@@ -207,10 +208,11 @@ Text formats with associated X·S·L·T parsers are wrapped in a H·T·M·L
 Source files whose media type does not have an associated X·S·L·T
   parser are considered “assets” and will not be transformed.
 
 Source files whose media type does not have an associated X·S·L·T
   parser are considered “assets” and will not be transformed.
 

-**☡ For compatibility with this program, source filenames must not
-  contain Ascii whitespace, colons (`:`), pipes (`|`), bucks (`$`),
-  percents (`%`) or control characters, and must not begin with a
-  hyphen‐minus (`-`).**
+**☡ For compatibility with this program, source file·names must not
+  contain Ascii white·space, colons (`:`), semis (`;`), pipes (`|`),
+  bucks (`$`), percents (`%`), hashes (`#`), asterisks (`*`), brackets
+  (`[` or `]`), erotemes (`?`), or control characters, and must not
+  begin with a hyphen‐minus (`-`).**

 The former characters have the potential to conflict with make syntax,
   and a leading hyphen‐minus is confusable for a command‐line argument.
 
 The former characters have the potential to conflict with make syntax,
   and a leading hyphen‐minus is confusable for a command‐line argument.
 


@@ -374,10 +376,32 @@ The following are recommendations on effective creation of
 - Set `@exclude-result-prefixes` on the root `xslt:transform` element
     to reduce the number of declared namespaces in the final result.
 
 - Set `@exclude-result-prefixes` on the root `xslt:transform` element
     to reduce the number of declared namespaces in the final result.
 

-The params `$buildtime`, `$srctime`, and `$path` are available within
-  transforms and are initialized to the current time, the time that the
-  source file was last modified, and the path of the output file within
-  $(DESTDIR).
+## Global Params
+
+The following params are made available globally in parsers and
+  transforms :⁠—
+
+- **`BUILDTIME`:**
+  The current time.
+
+- **`SRCREV`:**
+  The tag or hash of the current commit in the working directory (if
+    `GIT` is defined and `./.git` exists).
+
+- **`SRCTIME`:**
+  The time at which the source file was last modified.
+
+- **`VERSION`:**
+  The tag or hash of the current commit in `THISDIR` (if `GIT` is
+    defined and `$(THISDIR)/.git` exists).
+
+The following params are only available in transforms :⁠—
+
+- **`CATALOG`:**
+  The path of the catalog file (within `BUILDDIR`).
+
+- **`PATH`:**
+  The path of the output file (within `DESTDIR`).

 
 ## Output Wrapping
 
 
 ## Output Wrapping