diff --git a/1986/bright/README.md b/1986/bright/README.md
index 4f16c2b25..608d53228 100644
--- a/1986/bright/README.md
+++ b/1986/bright/README.md
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ program. This gives you a small example of what it is like to
maintain the Bourne shell! :-}
-
## Author's remarks:
No remarks were provided by the author.
diff --git a/1988/robison/index.html b/1988/robison/index.html
index e1c5f6b10..8ec05b952 100644
--- a/1988/robison/index.html
+++ b/1988/robison/index.html
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest
1988/robison - Best abuse of C constructs
- print e in any base using only -- >= and while()
+ print e in any base using only -- >= and while()
diff --git a/1990/theorem/index.html b/1990/theorem/index.html
index aeaaed803..57ec28743 100644
--- a/1990/theorem/index.html
+++ b/1990/theorem/index.html
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest
1990/theorem - Best of Show
- numerically solves the equation y'=f(x y)
+ numerically solves the equation y'=f(x y)
diff --git a/bin/html.sed b/bin/html.sed
index b6caaa991..f54c80bde 100644
--- a/bin/html.sed
+++ b/bin/html.sed
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#!/usr/bin/env sed
#
-# bin/html.sed - translate certain characters to HTML & entities
+# html.sed - translate certain characters to HTML & entities
#
# This script was written in 2024 November by:
#
@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@
# "Because sometimes even the IOCCC Judges need some help." :-)
#
# This script will take certain characters, for instance '<', and convert them
-# to their respective html entity, for instance '<', so that html lints do
+# to their respective HTML entity, for instance '<', so that HTML lints do
# not complain.
#
-# For a list of the other html entities, should others be needed, see:
+# For a list of the other HTML entities, should others be needed, see:
#
# https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp
#
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
#
# sed -i -f bin/html.sed file
#
-# VERSION="1.0 2024-11-04"
+# VERSION="1.1 2024-11-07"
# IMPORTANT NOTE: the '&' substitution MUST come first! This is because the
# other substitutions have '&'s in them and if the '&' came after it would
@@ -34,3 +34,6 @@
s/&/\\\&/g
s//\\\>/g
+s/|/\\\|/g
+s/=/\\\=/g
+s/%/\\\%/g
diff --git a/bin/md2html.sh b/bin/md2html.sh
index d849f2042..02ec16d8d 100755
--- a/bin/md2html.sh
+++ b/bin/md2html.sh
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
#
# chongo (Landon Curt Noll, http://www.isthe.com/chongo/index.html) /\oo/\
#
-# with important improvements by:
+# with useful improvements by:
#
# @xexyl
# https://xexyl.net Cody Boone Ferguson
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ shopt -s lastpipe # run last command of a pipeline not executed in the backgroun
# set variables referenced in the usage message
#
-export VERSION="1.7 2024-09-27"
+export VERSION="1.8 2024-11-07"
NAME=$(basename "$0")
export NAME
export V_FLAG=0
@@ -228,9 +228,12 @@ export USAGE="usage: $0 [-h] [-v level] [-V] [-d topdir] [-D docroot/] [-n] [-N]
-a tool run 'after tool' during HTML phase number 20 (def: do not output after pandoc wrapper tool)
-a . skip HTML phase number 22 (def: do nothing during HTML phase number 22)
- -s token=value substitute %%token%% with value except in HTML phase numbers 20-29 (def: do not substitute any tokens)
- NOTE: A later '-s token=value' will override an earlier '-s token=value' for the same 'token'.
- NOTE: Multiple '-s token=value' are cumulative for the unique set of 'token's.
+ -s token=value substitute %%token%% with value except in HTML phase numbers 20-29 (def: do not substitute any tokens)
+ NOTE: The 'token' string may not contain an = (equal), | (pipe) or a % (percent) symbol.
+ NOTE: The 'value' string may not contain a | (pipe) symbol
+ NOTE: A later '-s token=value' will override an earlier '-s token=value' for the same 'token'.
+ NOTE: Multiple '-s token=value' are cumulative for the unique set of 'token's.
+
-S Failure to replace a %%token%% is not an error (def: exit non-zero for non-substituted tokens)
-o tool use 'output tool' to generate option lines (def: do not)
@@ -564,7 +567,7 @@ function parse_command_line
fi
;;
s) # parse: -s token=value
- case "$OPTARG" in
+ case "$OPTARG" in
*=*) # parse name=value
NAME=${OPTARG%%=*}
VALUE=${OPTARG#*=}
@@ -576,7 +579,38 @@ function parse_command_line
;;
esac
#
-
+ case "$NAME" in
+ *=*)
+ echo "$0: ERROR: in -s token=value, the token may not contain an = (equal) character: $NAME" 1>&2
+ echo 1>&2
+ echo "$USAGE" 1>&2
+ exit 3
+ ;;
+ *\|*)
+ echo "$0: ERROR: in -s token=value, the token may not contain a | (pipe) character: $NAME" 1>&2
+ echo 1>&2
+ echo "$USAGE" 1>&2
+ exit 3
+ ;;
+ *%*)
+ echo "$0: ERROR: in -s token=value, the token may not contain a % (percent) character: $NAME" 1>&2
+ echo 1>&2
+ echo "$USAGE" 1>&2
+ exit 3
+ ;;
+ *) ;;
+ esac
+ #
+ case "$VALUE" in
+ *\|*)
+ echo "$0: ERROR: in -s token=value, the value may not contain a | (pipe) character: $NAME" 1>&2
+ echo 1>&2
+ echo "$USAGE" 1>&2
+ exit 3
+ ;;
+ *) ;;
+ esac
+ #
# set %%token%% value
#
TOKEN[$NAME]="$VALUE"
diff --git a/bin/subst.entry-index.sh b/bin/subst.entry-index.sh
index 9322b98ef..9b5e8d32c 100755
--- a/bin/subst.entry-index.sh
+++ b/bin/subst.entry-index.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
#
# chongo (Landon Curt Noll, http://www.isthe.com/chongo/index.html) /\oo/\
#
-# with important improvements by:
+# with useful improvements by:
#
# @xexyl
# https://xexyl.net Cody Boone Ferguson