[texhax] Low-level TeX question: string substitution macro

[Uwe Lück]

Hi Toby,

could you please just plainly (to a human being) tell what substitutions 
cleveref needs?

Best, Uwe.

At 16:57 21.04.09, Toby Cubitt wrote:

>Yes, I made cleveref write out a sed script. As for the sed/awk/perl
>debate, I personally prefer to use the simplest tool for the job: sed if
>possible, awk if sed isn't up to it, and perl if the awk solution would be
>too complicated. (I've never yet gotten as far as perl :)
>
>I completely see why one might like to make cleveref write out a TeX
>script instead (the script would then need to use one of the string
>substitution packages you mention). The reasoning, of course, is that if
>someone is using cleveref, then they're guaranteed to have TeX installed
>and working, so by far the most portable and robust solution is to
>generate a TeX script to carry out the desired string substitutions.
>
>However, implementing this would be far more work than I'm prepared to put
>into a feature that is simply a work-around that allows me (and maybe
>others) to submit papers to journals that accept LaTeX but don't support
>cleveref (i.e. all of them :-)
>
>If someone wanted to contribute a patch that (optionally) generated a TeX
>(or awk or perl) script, instead of a sed script, I'd be happy to include
>it in cleveref...
>
>Toby
>
>PS: I read about the Mars rover project a while back. It definitely falls
>into the "foolish quest" category :)