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splitting dl
From: |
Jeff Kingston |
Subject: |
splitting dl |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Jun 1998 20:08:40 +1000 |
I'm also coming to the conclusion that splitting dl is the way to go.
We could use a whole new lot of files and keep the old ones, so that
old code would not break. I did this when replacing @Fig by @Diag
recently.
I'm not quite sure that I could label things "low-level" or "high-level"
as easily as Uwe seems to do. I prefer to think of functionally
distinct parts of the system, such as "Fundamental Quantities" (initial
font and break, display gap, etc.), "Page Layout", "Displays and Lists",
"Large-scale structure" and so on.
If I undertook such a re-organization I would also want to look again
at the way format options work. I think there needs to be a lot more,
and a lot more flexible, format options. In fact I would go so far as
to say that all, or virtually all, format information should be in the
default values of format parameters, not hard-wired into the body of
the software at all.
Jeff
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