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Goals and what-nexts
Future enhancement and improvements will be pursued with the
following considerations in mind. Comments are welcome:
kwong@mcs.anl.gov
.
- User-friendliness
- easy to learn, use, and get help/documentation
- as many options as possible to be taken care of by defaults
- easy to add/modify commands and override defaults
- Flexibility
- user control over many possible options
- Generality
- easy for a user to redesign the built-in dot commands to
create new preprocessors for other types of documents
or for future versions of HTML
- dot commands have capabilities to anticipate demands for
preprocessing more general, non-HTML documents
- Compatibility
- HTML files generated by "htxp" should pass unchanged under
another "htxp" expansion
- Availability
- portable to many platforms
What-nexts
[Desirable features for future versions of "htxp".]
- HTML+ and HTML3.
- Improve abbreviation suppression.
- Improve speed.
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