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Originally Posted by ekaser
Very true, a built-in form of TIDY. It might be worthwhile to add HTML input (LaTeX, I don't care about personally, and I'm not sure how many folks really use it or would use it, but that's neither here nor there). Right now you have .TXT and .RTF input and .HTML and LaTeX output. Why not make it 'orthogonal', all any of the four input and any of the four output. That would, in essence, make it a 'tidy' and conversion program all in one. Just a thought.
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Probably the approach I will take, ekaser.
I've just been itching to get working code and, in retrospect, have churned out messy and architecturally lazy code in order to do so.
I think I need to redo the architecture in order to have a clean "intake" portion that converts input files into the internal format, a processing portion that does whatever needs to be done, and an output portion that converts the internal format into the chosen output format.
Once I have that, a good deal of the existing code can be plugged in there without too much modification, and adding additional input or output formats can also be done without any complication of the existing code.
And I can already think of somebody who would be very pleased to have minimalist RTFs generated from existing more complex ones.
- Ahi