(mgp-users 00056) Re: misc questions & bugs

[cpg <cpg@rocketmail.com>]

good idea! the identifiers in the dontshow
clause could be simple regular expressions: dontshow examples-*

you may not even need reg-exprs. simplicity is good. for
instance, substring matches might just do: dontshow examples-

btw, i know what you mean by "scope" now .... yes,
scope would be good.


---Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> wrote:
>
> > >         - provide a %cpage that would comment out one page entirely
> > >         (i.e. nothing happens until the next %page).
> > 
> > How many people think this is a good idea?
> 
> > Or how many people think this is an Editor's job(e.g. mgp-mode in
> > Emacs)?
> 
> it _could_ be a very good idea and not an editor's job.
> E.g. Say you have a long presentation from which you need quickly to
> extract a small number of representative slides (e.g. summary,
> conclusions, and skip demonstrations or details on each topic...)
> 
> The way i see it most useful and possibly simple to implement is
> to let %page's be tagged with an arbitrary identifier, and a command
> like
> 
>     %dontshow ident1 ident2 ident3 ...
> 
> because commenting out each page might still require some tedious
> editing and referring to pages by numbers is very hard.
> 
> 	cheers
> 	luigi
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