[ruby-talk:00776] Re: RD with multi charset

On 31 Aug, Toshiro Kuwabara wrote:
> Hi,
> 

[...]

> 
> I think this new proposal is better, because it will not force
> writers to use  its means nor users to do anything special nor 
> formatters to do anything special...

So that is, why I would support that proposal.

> 
> While someone who want to use this methods can do with special 
> utility tools ("swaprd.rb", "splitrd.rb", ...), others who don't
> want to use it are not required to install such a special util
> tool. And there is no need that matz include such a special utils
> into Ruby distribution as well as include RD formatter into it.
> (Because users can read RD without any util tool and formatter)

:-):-):-)

But Tosh, I have a new idea! Please have a look into my `rdswap.rb'. On
the bottom you can see, that I have put the help text, that can be
displayed by useing `rdswap.rb -h'. I would have used RD to write it, so
that others could generate a doc from it.

But then I think we could need a `rd2txt' tool. That could propably
introduced into the Ruby standard distribution! Then I could use RD to
write my help text, *and* use that filter within my script to display
the text as pure ASCII onto the display. Something like:

	#!/bin/env ruby -s

	require "rd2txt";
	
	if $h or $help
	   print rd2txt(DATA.read);
	end
	:
	:
	__END__
	=begin
	= Purpose:
	Bla bla bla bla
	=end
	
What do you think?

> 
> Maybe, this proposal doesn't make influences upon RD spec..
> So you can do that without change of RD spec. and formatter.
> 
> Oh! while I'm writing this mail, \cle make rdswap.rb!! :-)

:-)))))

> 
> ---
> Tosh

\cle