Re: bug report to HTML::FormatText
Gisle Aas (aas@oslonett.no)
Tue, 26 Sep 1995 15:30:05 +0100
Andreas Koenig <k@anna.mind.de> writes:
> Gisle> Another problem is that there should have been some way to
> Gisle> specify these formatter parameters together with the -o
> Gisle> option in the "request" script. Perhaps something like
> Gisle> this:
>
> Gisle> request -o ps:papersize=letter;fontfamily=helvetica
> Gisle> 00whois.html
>
> Gisle> Can you think of a better way to do it?
>
> I would suggest replace the ":" and ";" with whitespace and keep the "="
>
> request -o ps papersize=letter fontfamily=helvetica 00whois.html
>
> looks more familiar to me. Now I see the problem: somebody has a
> filename "fontfamily=helvetica". So this isn't really good enough. But
> if "--" is recognized as the end of options, I'd prefer the white way.
The problem with whitespace as you suggest is that we can't continue to use
Getopt::Std unless we force people quote the option value like this:
request -o 'ps papersize=letter fontfamily=helvetica' 00whois.html
> This reminds me of a feature request I had in mind: STDIN as the
> source isn't supported yet, would you like to add support for it?
No :-)
--Gisle