X-Git-Url: https://git.ladys.computer/Shushe/blobdiff_plain/f6a3b3d4de9b99892c8d9179061546b52a46e471..8ec9a45141899d218b31c488fdbc8f820800ee69:/README.markdown diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown index bf353e0..8a6efb8 100644 --- a/README.markdown +++ b/README.markdown @@ -57,13 +57,6 @@ Details on particular programs are given below; if a program is not listed, it is assumed that any Posix‐compliant implementation will work. -### `date` - -This is a Posix utility, but ⛩️📰 书社 currently depends on - unspecified behaviour. -When the G·N·U version of `stat` is being used, then the G·N·U version - of `date` is also expected. - ### `file` This is a Posix utility, but ⛩️📰 书社 currently depends on @@ -108,13 +101,6 @@ This is a Posix utility, but not included in the Linux Standard Base or installed by default in many distributions. Only `ustar` format support is required. -### `stat` - -This is not a Posix utility, and nor is it particularly portable. -To get around incompatibilities, ⛩️📰 书社 attempts to recognize G·N·U - `stat` by searching for the string `GNU` when invoked with the - `--version` option, and falls back to B·S·D behaviour otherwise. - ### `uudecode` and `uuencode` These are Posix utilities, but not included in the Linux Standard Base @@ -122,14 +108,6 @@ These are Posix utilities, but not included in the Linux Standard Base The G·N·U [Sharutils](https://www.gnu.org/software/sharutils/) package can be installed to access them. -### `xargs` - -This is a Posix utility, but ⛩️📰 书社 currently depends on - unspecified behaviour. -It requires support for the `-0` flag, which must disable the special - quote and whitespace handling of `xargs` in favour of null‐terminated - strings. - ### `xmlcatalog` and `xmllint` These are not a Posix utilities. @@ -206,13 +184,12 @@ In every case, you may supply your own implementation by overriding the - `cksum` - `cp` - `date` -- `echo` +- `diff` - `file` - `find` - `git` (optional; set `GIT=` to disable) - `grep` - `ln` -- `ls` - `mkdir` - `mv` - `od` @@ -221,13 +198,12 @@ In every case, you may supply your own implementation by overriding the - `rm` - `sed` - `sleep` -- `stat` (BSD *or* GNU) - `test` - `touch` - `tr` - `uuencode` - `uudecode` -- `xargs` (requires support for `-0`) +- `xargs` - `xmlcatalog` (provided by `libxml2`) - `xmllint` (provided by `libxml2`) - `xsltproc` (provided by `libxslt`) @@ -316,8 +292,8 @@ The following additional variables can be used to control the behaviour enable additional transforms without overriding the existing ones. - **`XMLTYPES`:** - A white·space‐separated list of media types to consider X·M·L - (default: `application/xml text/xml`). + A white·space‐separated list of media types or media type suffixes to + consider X·M·L (default: `application/xml text/xml +xml`). - **`THISREV`:** The current version of ⛩️📰 书社 (default: derived from the current @@ -327,6 +303,15 @@ The following additional variables can be used to control the behaviour The current version of the source files (default: derived from the current git tag/branch/commit). +- **`QUIET`:** + If this variable has a value, informative messages will not be + printed (default: empty). + Informative messages print to stderr, not stdout, so disabling them + usually shouldn’t be necessary. + This does not (cannot) disable messages from Make itself, for which + the `-s`, `--silent` ∕ `--quiet` Make option is more likely to be + useful. + - **`VERBOSE`:** If this variable has a value, every recipe instruction will be printed when it runs (default: empty). @@ -359,14 +344,12 @@ Source files whose media type does not have an associated X·S·L·T contain Ascii white·space, colons (`:`), semis (`;`), pipes (`|`), bucks (`$`), percents (`%`), hashes (`#`), asterisks (`*`), brackets (`[` or `]`), erotemes (`?`), backslashes (`\`), or control - characters, must not begin with a hyphen‐minus (`-`), must not end - with a cloparen (`)`), and must not contain quoted braces (`"{` or - `}"`).** + characters, must not begin with a hyphen‐minus (`-`), and must not end + with a cloparen (`)`).** The former characters have the potential to conflict with make syntax, - a leading hyphen‐minus is confusable for a command‐line argument, a + a leading hyphen‐minus is confusable for a commandline argument, and a trailing cloparen [activates a bug in G·N·U Make - 3.81](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17148468/capturing-filenames-including-parentheses-with-gnu-makes-wildcard-function#comment24825307_17148894), - and quoted braces are used internally by the program. + 3.81](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17148468/capturing-filenames-including-parentheses-with-gnu-makes-wildcard-function#comment24825307_17148894). ## Parsers @@ -693,6 +676,13 @@ They are :⁠— non X·M·L output types, ⁊·c). Other child elements will be ignored. + If the `<书社:archive>` element is given an `@书社:expanded` + attribute, rather than producing a tarball ⛩️📰 书社 will output + the directory which expanding the tarball would produce. + This mechanism can be used to generate multiple files from a single + source, provided all of the files are contained with·in the same + directory. + - **`<书社:base64-binary>`:** The text nodes in the transformation result will, after removing all Ascii whitespace, be treated as a Base·64 string, which is then @@ -702,29 +692,6 @@ They are :⁠— A plaintext (U·T·F‐8) file will be produced from the text nodes in the transformation result. -## Pagination - -It is possible to have a single source file produce multiple output - files via `<书社:page>` elements, whose `@name` gives the name of the - page. -If a parsed document has a `@书社:destination` which contains `%s`, - the `%s` will be replaced with the `@name` for each `<书社:page>` (and - removed for the main output). -Otherwise, the `@name` is inserted before the first period of the - filename (or at the end of the filename for those with no period). -If `<书社:page>`s do not have a `@name`, they are numbered - sequentially. -The destination of pages must be in the same directory as their parent. - -Pagination essentially forms a limited convenience for the more - sophisticated technique of creating an archive with ⛩️📰 书社 and - then unarchiving it. -Pages are, from Make’s point of view, untracked side·effects of - installing the main output, meaning they cannot be targeted directly - and will not appear in `make list` or `make listout`. -They are intended solely for the like of indices and feeds, for which - convenience and necessity outweigh their flaws. - ## License This repository conforms to [REUSE][].