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Andy Kopra 6e7596ab2e Option sets: a .o target for shared parameters
A named group of optional parameters, declared once and used by several
klammers, so a writer learns one vocabulary instead of a spelling per
klammer.  The "o" target is a pseudo-target beside "k": "k" declares a
klammer's interface and documents it, "o" declares an option interface and
documents it, and neither produces output for any target.

    @@caption_args.o :caption :number.bool true :caption_side.side
    : Arguments that define a caption for a block element @@

    @@code.k :filename @hpos_args :hpos left @ @caption_args :caption_side top @
    | text.literal : A source file displayed verbatim @@

A set is used only in the parameter list of a ".k" declaration -- the one
place a klammer's interface is declared once for all of its targets -- and
is resolved as that list is read.  Names and types come from the set; a
default may be overridden where it is used.  A klammer application in a
parameter list is now a definition-time error.

The SKS gains the sets caption_args and hpos_args (:hpos and :offset), and
@table, @image, @image_grid, @reference and @show gain .k declarations.  A
distance is no longer written as a position: :hpos 4em is rejected, and the
same layout is :hpos left :offset 4em.  Code listings are numbered by
default, like tables and figures.

New engine sources mac/option_set{,_registry}.{h,cpp}; tst/ ships two more
suites, option_set_test.sh and signature_test.sh (twelve in all).

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# Klammertext
Klammertext is a markup language that produces multiple output formats —
HTML, LaTeX/PDF, and plain text — from a single source description. Its core
engine, the Klammermachine, is written in C++; the Standard Klammer Set (SKS)
adds a default library of formatting and document-structuring operators on top.
## Installing
Installation guides are in [`doc/install/`](doc/install/):
- Linux, from source — `doc/install/linux_source_install.md`
- macOS, from source — `doc/install/macos_source_install.md`
- Linux, container — `doc/install/linux_container_install.md`
- macOS, container — `doc/install/macos_container_install.md`
## Building from source
With a C++20 compiler and `KLAMMERTEXT_HOME` set to this directory:
make -C com
This builds the Klammermachine library (into `lib/`), the SKS components, and
the three commands — `ktext`, `kdesc`, `kdiag` (into `bin/`). See the
source-install guide for prerequisites (TeX Live for PDF output, Python, and so
on).
## Editor support
Editing support for Emacs, Sublime Text, Vim, and Visual Studio Code —
syntax highlighting, delimiter matching, structural reindentation, table
alignment, diagnostics — is in [`doc/edit/`](doc/edit/), together with the
shared implementation and the Klammertext language server they build on.
## Provenance
This repository is a curated snapshot of Klammertext's private development
tree, assembled by a manifest-driven script. Its history is a series of
release snapshots, not a mirror of the development history, and files here
are regenerated on each release — patches cannot be merged directly.
Report problems (or send patches) to the author; accepted changes are
applied to the development tree and appear in a following snapshot.
This snapshot was assembled from development commit `34e536cb0329`.
## License
See [`LICENSE.md`](LICENSE.md).