Re: hardcode.pgm anomaly--methodology

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Sorry to be so long in responding: for some reason, your post only showed
up when I resorted Eudora's table of contents for the Xy mailbox.
At any rate, one of us doesn't understand the other. I'm not sure who it
is. Suppose that C1 is highest level (e.g., Chapter number) and then comes
C2, and then C3.What I'm suggesting is that your XPL routine do a CI
command to make this change:

CI //../
The trick is the space and hyphen following the counter number: it prevents
the number from being incremented (see Customization Guide, p. 4-102).
So when it is chapter 5, section 3, point 7, you have in your original text
just , which would put out "7." After the CI, your text has:
..
which should put out: 5.3.7

Voila!

--Harry

In that way, the value of
Harry Binswanger wrote:
Yes, but why would that be a problem (given your 2.1.3.1 . . . numbering
system)? I probably just don't appreciate the problem.
Because it isn't enough to increment and CI a given set of counters (C3,
say). You have to watch for and trap any change of C2, because that will
automatically change the value of C3. And of C1, because that
automatically changed the value of C2.

Here's what a properly constructed set of decimal counters would look like:
C1   1
C2   1.1
C2   1.2
C1   2
C2   2.1
You see? Every time the previous-higher-level counter changes, the first
digit of the counter in question changes. Every time a new counter of that
level is inserted, the digit after the period changes. And so on.
What Wally was saying yesterday about the buffers in a wp program seems
relevant: you have to keep three or four counters in sync, incrementing
each at different moments, to keep track of autocounters.
But a spanner in my suggested method of yesterday is that high-order
ASCII/Speedos chars aren't enclosed in ≪≫. Could one make a substitution
table in one's hc.prn file that simply repeated them all? For example:

[264]=[264]
using the real Speedos chars?
Gosh, it seems simple to do the kind of program I'm suggesting. But what
about using Carl's HARDCODE.PGM that someone mentioned having?
Carl's program doesn't make allowance for multilevel counters; it only
works on the simple 1., 2., 3., type. I suppose I'm the only one who uses
multilevel counters, but I love them and use them a lot.
Harry, read pp. 4-92-96, esp. the charts on 4-94 to 95. for a clearer
explanation of what's involved.

--
Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@xxxxxxxx


Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx