Re: It's time...

[Tobias Oetiker <nospam@thanx>]

Yesterday you sent me mail regarding Re: It's time...:

*> On Sat, May 08, 1999, Schmid, Johannes wrote:
*> 
*> > > Stefan `Sec` Zehl <sec@42.org> writes:
*> > >> What about the slices inside slices problem I posted about ?
*> > 
*> > > That can be solved by reading the man-page.  There is absolutely no
*> > > use for slices within slices.
*> > 
*> > I kind of have the same problem and slices within slices would be a great
*> > help for me. 
*> 
*> Sorry when I ask such late (I'd not the time to follow the original thread),
*> but what exactly do you mean by "slices inside slices" and why is it not
*> supported? I personally understand by "slices inside slices" something like
*> 
*> [FOO:foo1[BAR:bar:]foo2:]
*> 
*> And this _IS_ supported, of course. And Pass 9 allows one to mix slices in
*> arbitrary ways through set operations, so I'm still confused what particular
*> set/slices problem can't be solved by it? Can you give me a pure slice-based
*> example (no interaction with other tags) and a result you want to see and
*> which you think cannot be done with a set operation on the -o command line?

I think the problem is, that the <LANG.... tags <de> <en> and friends only
produce

[LANG_DE: :] and not [LANG_DE:   :LANG_DE] which provents users
from nesting lang tags ...

cheers
tobi
*> 
*> I'm still a little bit confused, so feel free to force my opinion.
*> 
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