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ackandClaude Fable 5.1 217c0f3fc5 katom types from ref/ in groups, @table :leading in lines of text and :rulesep, @code under txt, one table style attribute, literal-klammer options (from dev 2e453744f5e9)
kdesc --katoms is Klammertext rendered from ref/, the types in titled groups,
with --katoms full for the regex column.  @table :leading L is L lines of the
surrounding text in html as in pdf (default 1), and :rulesep spaces the
horizontal rules.  The html table has one style attribute, so :column_width
fractions take effect again.  @code and @source_listing render in plain
text; captions are numbered per kind there, and a table needs no blank line
around it.  @c takes :nd, and an option-shaped word before a bar inside
literal code is code.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 22:37:13 +02:00
ackandClaude Fable 5.1 0ead40f272 Width and height argtypes, kdesc --argtypes from ref/, txt @define/@left_right/@columns, kdiag --check value validation (from dev d6993110e9b3)
Also: the klammertext argtype (descriptions kept as source), txt table
wrapping and :hpos/:offset, @c between ‹ ›, txt section headings, the
ktext newline-only trim, capitalize(), and the argtype test suite.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-16 16:59:49 +02:00
ack af29bbf7ac Unicode sequences, @typeface, and the font/typeface distinction
A run of Unicode code points now needs one pair of carets, not one pair
each: ^9053 53EF 9053^ renders the characters adjacently, and a single
character inside such a run stands for itself.  An invalid code point is
an error naming the position that wrote it, rather than an apology
rendered into the finished document; noncharacters are refused alongside
surrogates; and a code point that lands on a Klammertext special is safe
through the re-reads that assemble a document.  The character tables now
produce the precomposed form, so a diacritic written as ^a" and one typed
directly are the same text to a search or a copy-paste.

"kdesc -u" describes how to write a Unicode character, with tables of
glyphs beside the codes that produce them.  It is new and not yet
complete: it predates the sequence form and the typeface klammer below.

A typeface and a style are no longer both called "font".  A typeface is a
family resolved by name; a style code is the one letter naming a type
style.  So @document takes :serif_typeface and its siblings, a table takes
:style, captions take :caption_style and :caption_size, the uniform scale
is :text_scale, and the command is "kdesc --typeface".  This renames
arguments a document may already use; an old name is a located error
rather than a silent omission.

@typeface sets a passage in another typeface for the length of that
passage:

    @typeface Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs | ^132AA 133CF^ :scale 1.5 @

Writing the klammer is the whole declaration -- the document resolves the
typeface, embeds it in what it produces, and carries its license along.
Two typefaces for scripts no text font covers now ship with Klammertext:
Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Noto Sans Cuneiform.  Every typeface in
the distribution now carries its license file.

(from dev 61e598698891)
2026-08-25 23:30:55 +02:00
ack 37b6ba1c4f Verbatim-safe typography, ^-punctuation quoting, full-range ^UUUU^, polyglot html
Typographic transforms (---, quote pairs, ~) no longer touch verbatim
text: @c/@code/@source_listing content and ^'...'^ spans show exactly the
characters written. "^" before any punctuation character quotes it in
every target (the apostrophe excepted: ^' opens a literal span), with the
new :resolve option on @@@target declaring per-target renderings. The
^UUUU^ code-point form accepts 4-6 hex digits, the full Unicode range.
The html output and transform spellings are polyglot (XML-valid), in
preparation for an EPUB target. New suites: transform_test, character_test
(engine), typography_test (SKS).

(from dev 07ce5ea86a0a)
2026-08-23 20:48:26 +02:00
ackandClaude Fable 5 bd39d9a369 Literal @c, @source_listing with :marker, and a large-directory speedup
Three changes.

@c now takes its content literally, like @code -- it is the inline form
and @code the block form of the same thing.  The named close "c@" is
required, and characters that are special in a target no longer break
the file: @c a_b c@ renders correctly everywhere.  The Markdown
converter stops quoting inline code, since nothing needs protecting.

@source_file is renamed @source_listing.  Code read from a file is its
own klammer; @code is only for a block written inline (its never-
implemented :filename and :pattern options are removed).  The new
:marker P option lists the region between two lines that are exactly
//P, so the source file declares its own extractable regions.  A marker
missing or not appearing exactly twice is an error, never a fallback.

Rendering a document that sits in a large directory was paying a
recursive walk of that directory's whole tree on every @eval -- 27
seconds for a document that renders in a third of one.  The walk is now
a non-recursive look decided once per directory.

Assembled from dev commit 071b1b183de4.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 16:58:50 +02:00
ack 240cff4278 An output policy for the three commands, and @cond as a true special form
A snapshot of the development tree.  The substantial changes since the last one:

COMMAND OUTPUT POLICY.  The three commands display text in exactly three cases,
and each owns a stream: LOGGING under "-v" greater than 0 and an ERROR before
termination go to STDERR; OUTPUT THE USER ASKED FOR goes to STDOUT.  For ktext
that output is a document, so "ktext doc.kt -d | ..." is now safe -- logging
used to share the stream and land inside the document.  A bare command prints
its usage and succeeds rather than failing.  Colour is emitted only to a
terminal, per stream, and NO_COLOR is honoured.

"-v 1" reports every decision whose outcome you could not have read off your own
input: the klammerset that was loaded and from which file, a font's directory, a
":files" name's file, how "-o" was expanded.  Higher levels are the trace.

The commands no longer warn and continue: an anomaly is an error, described with
its location.  Two exceptions remain, each for a stated reason -- a condition
that is expected and temporary by design, and a judgment that is a heuristic
rather than exact.

@cond IS NOW A TRUE SPECIAL FORM, resolved at APPLICATION time rather than when
the file is read.  Two consequences for a writer:

  * a state variable reaches the predicate.  "@@@state Flag :value true @@@
    @cond *Flag* | T | F @" renders "T"; it used to see the literal "*Flag*" and
    silently take the false branch.  The document now behaves like a klammer
    body, whose arguments are bound before its conditionals are decided.
  * nothing in a discarded branch happens -- it is not read, not evaluated, not
    expanded.  An @eval in the branch not taken used to run anyway.

Its predicate relation is total and strict: true, True, 1; false, False, 0, and
empty; anything else is an error at the @cond rather than silently false.

@eval REACHING OUTSIDE.  ":shell" and ":haskell" now keep the command's standard
error out of the document (it appears under "-v 1") and treat a nonzero exit as
an error naming what the command reported.  A command that exits nonzero on
purpose -- "grep" finding no match -- says so with "|| true".

KLAMMER SETS.  Several combine: "--klammersets a b c" loads all three in the
order given, sharing one namespace, with the definition modes deciding
collisions.  "none" means none and may not be combined with other symbols.  A
klammerset with symbol X is declared in a file X/X.k, which is what lets two
sets require the same third set without loading it twice.

TESTS.  Four new suites: the kdiag command's interface, the @eval primitive's
contract with the outside world, and verbosity at both tiers.  Three suites
that could not run on macOS at all now do.

Assembled from dev commit 6c8ee6c22fca.
2026-08-16 01:37:59 +02:00
ack 6e7596ab2e Option sets: a .o target for shared parameters
A named group of optional parameters, declared once and used by several
klammers, so a writer learns one vocabulary instead of a spelling per
klammer.  The "o" target is a pseudo-target beside "k": "k" declares a
klammer's interface and documents it, "o" declares an option interface and
documents it, and neither produces output for any target.

    @@caption_args.o :caption :number.bool true :caption_side.side
    : Arguments that define a caption for a block element @@

    @@code.k :filename @hpos_args :hpos left @ @caption_args :caption_side top @
    | text.literal : A source file displayed verbatim @@

A set is used only in the parameter list of a ".k" declaration -- the one
place a klammer's interface is declared once for all of its targets -- and
is resolved as that list is read.  Names and types come from the set; a
default may be overridden where it is used.  A klammer application in a
parameter list is now a definition-time error.

The SKS gains the sets caption_args and hpos_args (:hpos and :offset), and
@table, @image, @image_grid, @reference and @show gain .k declarations.  A
distance is no longer written as a position: :hpos 4em is rejected, and the
same layout is :hpos left :offset 4em.  Code listings are numbered by
default, like tables and figures.

New engine sources mac/option_set{,_registry}.{h,cpp}; tst/ ships two more
suites, option_set_test.sh and signature_test.sh (twelve in all).

 (from dev 34e536cb0329)
2026-08-06 13:11:37 +02:00