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23:51:01
|3b|
Shinmera: another argument in favor of treating arguments of IS the same, (is < (x a) (x b)), a and b are both calculated values, and i want to verify the constraint that they are ordered
23:52:42
|3b|
and also confusing what order to put them when using ordering predicates instead of equality
8:28:53
gingerale
Shinmera: selwyn: On the location, some of the old town around Europe are usually really lovely but full of tourists. Baltics are cheap and Sweden has some really nice islands. Or could go for Skåne in South Sweden. Very easy to get to.
8:33:31
gingerale
But I'm not sure I can afford to travel /anywhere/ this year. I still need to pay for my new PC and I've that 1900 eur thing coming.
8:50:17
splittist
gingerale: it has a bajillion namespaces and they keep adding more, but is it any more messy than any other xml?
8:55:14
gingerale
Fields have two ways to them. One is a wrapping element, which is a nice and logical way to do it. Unfortunately the more common way for them to exist is to have a marker element deep inside a paragraph somewhere and then an ending element in another. Comments have no natural order or hierarchy to them and their whole response system is a complete hack. There's a whole bunch of special rules to how heading
8:57:02
splittist
But it is possible to do some things fairly cleanly. I use https://github.com/splittist/docxplora (WIP) for Real World Stuff.
8:57:03
Colleen
github.com/splittist/docxpl... Website (HTML), Title: GitHub - splittist/docxplora: Manipulate docx files with Common Lisp
8:57:13
gingerale
That last one is a special pain to the point that none of the expert blogs actually touch it. They just use whatever default an existing document provides. But if you have no such document you're in trouble.
8:58:33
splittist
You can just gin up your own heading hierarchy. The trouble comes, as you say, when you try to use the builtin list stuff with otherwise hierarchical styles.
8:59:07
splittist
ACTION blushes (but is conscious gingerale hasn't had a chance to read the actual code yet.. .(: )
9:01:37
splittist
And powerful when used properly. Unfortunately, it is very hard to use properly...