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bd39d9a369 Literal @c, @source_listing with :marker, and a large-directory speedup
Three changes.

@c now takes its content literally, like @code -- it is the inline form
and @code the block form of the same thing.  The named close "c@" is
required, and characters that are special in a target no longer break
the file: @c a_b c@ renders correctly everywhere.  The Markdown
converter stops quoting inline code, since nothing needs protecting.

@source_file is renamed @source_listing.  Code read from a file is its
own klammer; @code is only for a block written inline (its never-
implemented :filename and :pattern options are removed).  The new
:marker P option lists the region between two lines that are exactly
//P, so the source file declares its own extractable regions.  A marker
missing or not appearing exactly twice is an error, never a fallback.

Rendering a document that sits in a large directory was paying a
recursive walk of that directory's whole tree on every @eval -- 27
seconds for a document that renders in a third of one.  The walk is now
a non-recursive look decided once per directory.

Assembled from dev commit 071b1b183de4.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 16:58:50 +02:00
4a4c7404cc Markdown to PDF: the mdpdf command, and the fonts it needs
This snapshot carries sks/tns/, the translation directory, into the
distribution for the first time, together with the two default font
families its stylesheet names.

sks/tns/ holds two converters in opposite directions.  md_to_sks.py
converts Markdown to Klammertext, recording what it cannot convert exactly
as "#[MD ... ]#" markers so a draft carries its own worklist.  md_to_pdf.py
renders Markdown straight to PDF through a headless Chromium driven over the
DevTools Protocol, bypassing Klammertext entirely -- the route for a
document that is not ready to convert, and a permanent one for Markdown that
Klammertext cannot represent well.  Neither is loaded by the SKS; md_to_pdf
needs markdown-it-py, which it keeps in a virtual environment of its own and
creates with --setup.

The everyday form of the second is the mdpdf command, a shell function in
sks/tns/mdpdf.sh that env/runtime.env sources, so anyone with the
Klammertext environment has it:

    mdpdf notes.md          # writes notes.pdf beside it

It supplies the house fonts, the size matching, and the code wrapping,
completes on *.md at the TAB key, and takes its defaults from MDPDF_*
variables so one can be changed in a shell profile without copying the
function.  It is POSIX shell rather than zsh, since runtime.env is sourced
from bash profiles too.

Two things the stylesheet does that a print stylesheet usually cannot.  Code
lines are wrapped to a column count MEASURED from the rendered page rather
than written down -- the browser is asked how many characters a code box
holds, over every box in the document, so the wrapping stays right when the
fonts, sizes or margins change.  And the page number is a CSS Paged Media
margin box, which current Chromium implements, so it is set in the
document's own face instead of the browser's generic sans.

fnt/ gains EB Garamond and Source Sans 3, the serif and sans the stylesheet
asks for by default.

 (from dev 97d4f244c737)
2026-08-09 15:54:05 +02:00