[texdoc] quote madness

[Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard]

Hi Karl,

Thanks for the info. I added it to the list of small issues currently pending,
that I plan to fix next time I'm touching texdoc.

Manuel.

On 16/09/2013 00:02, Karl Berry wrote:
> Manuel,
> 
> It's a minor point that perhaps you don't want to worry about, but
> texdoc is (not surprisingly) not prepared to handle nested " characters
> inside the details="..." string.  For example, with
>  texmf-dist/doc/latex/pythontex/pythontex_quickstart.pdf details="\"Quick start\" documentation"
> 
> texdoc -l reports
>  3 /home/texlive/karl/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/pythontex/pythontex_quickstart.pdf
>    = \
> (that's a lone backslash).
> 
> However, we are abandoning any quoting inside these strings.  Instead,
> the idea is to do a greedy match of ".*", so whatever characters inside
> the quotes are taken as-is.  This works because we know what the
> possible attribute names are (details and language).
>  
> You can see how Norbert is parsing this at around line 125 of TLPOBJ.pm
> (from_fh).  You may not want to take the same tack :).  Just ignoring
> the whole issue seems perfectly plausible to me, but ... just wanted to
> mention it for the record.
> 
> karl
> 
>