Re: Multi Language Support Question

[Denis Barbier <nospam@thanx>]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:58:33AM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
[...]
> Since slice hasn't that much options yet, this shouldn't be that hard. ;-)
> 
> Here 's my suggestion, of which I thought first about, when I stumbled
> across that problem with non-existent slices:
> 
> -o: as before
> -a: like -o, but write output file only, if *a*ll slices in the slice
>     term exist
> -p: like -o, but write output file only, if all *p*ositive (+) slices
>     in the slice term exist (to substract something, that doesn't
>     exist, doesn't hurt :-)
> -n: like -o, but write output file only, if slice term is *n*ot empty
>     (means "contains not only whitespaces")
> 
> -A: Proceed as if all following -o's are -a's  (also applies to -n)
> -P: dito. for -p (also applies to -n)
> -N: dito. for -n (also applies to -a and -p)
> 
> Those uppercase parameters probably would be nice for use inside the
> .wmlrc's and .wmkrc's... :-)
[...]

But these options must also be accessible from wml command-line, so it
is surely better to find another way by applying modifiers to the -o
flag.  For instance we may add suffix
     -o sliceterm:outputfile[@chmodcmd][#modifier]
where modifier is your [apnAPN] options described above.

-- 
Denis Barbier
WML Maintainer
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