Re: Home of WML and other stuff

[Tobias Oetiker <nospam@thanx>]

Today you sent me mail regarding Re: Home of WML and other stuff:

*> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
*> 
*> > apropos features, I was wondering why there was no
*> > 
*> > #define something=blabla
*> > 
*> > in the ipp pass .... analog to -Dsomething=blabla
*> 
*> Tobias, maybe it's because ipp means ``Include Pre-Processor''?
*> 
*> I think Ralf added the -D option when he used ipp in conjonction with
*> wml, but he never implemented #define.
*> 
*> The -D option is more general, because variables are defined for all
*> passes. I am not sure it will be clear to the end-user that the variable
*> defined with #define becomes meaningless after the first pass, so it is
*> not a good idea (IMHO, of course :o).

this does not matter, as all these variables would be resolved after the
first pass ... however, maybe you can suggest something else ... 

what I would like to do is to setup a wml system where the basic 'look and
feel' elements are defined in a special file these would be things like
colors and names of background gif files. Now the resolution of these names
should happen in the first pass so that I can use the real values in every
subsequent pass ... 

defining these things in .wmlrc looks a bit strange to me ... I thought
having a file with 

#define PageBG=#ffffff
#define PageFG=#000000
.
.
.

would be nicer ... 

cheers
tobi

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