Archives Sept. 19, 2014
Eventually Text Munging Gets Nasty
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Tuxedo.
So today I started into the basic command-and-control part of the Listener system. The original tack I took was to create escaped commands inside the text stream using the "typing" substitutions (the stuff that converts ,comma into ','):
some text \action_do_something more text
But that got rather grotty rather fast when looking at corner cases ...