Amongst the changes here is that we do not need to have the hex or html
code (numbers) for open and close parentheses (in links) as there are
names. '(' is & followed by lpar; and the ')' is the same but 'rpar;'
instead. This makes it easier to remember and type and it generates the
same html as well (they are all valid). Now the markdown files are
consistent in this (in some cases hex was used and in others the html
code).
Although many markdown files were updated no html files needed to be
updated as it generates the same html. Even so I ran the appropriate
rules to do so just to verify this.
We move `tmp/format-headers.sh` into `bin/format-headers.sh`.
We also add a few missing empty lines to `README.md`.
We add `bin/format-headers.sh` to the `bin/README.md`.
We run `bin/format-headers.sh` to perform the above.
Performed `make www` to accomplish the above and to test under macOS.
Given how problematic leading tabs in markdown files can be,
we have expanded all leading tabs in markdown files by:
```sh
find * -type f -name '*.md' -print |
while read -r file; do
rm -f "$file.tmp" ;
expand < "$file" > "$file.tmp" ;
mv -f -v "$file.tmp" "$file" ;
done
```
Given the previous changes to `bin/pandoc-wrapper.sh` and other recent
commits and recent pull requests, the were were **NO** changes to
any HTML files. This is a **good thing** as the expression goes.
No there are no leading tabs in any markdown files.
A check to catch any re-introduction of leading tabs
into any markdown file is on the way.
BTW: We do not have anything against leading tabs in files,
even though we have had to deal with their impact on forming
HTML from markdown files (as well as the calc source code).
It is just that this is one of those cases where tabs conflict
(sometimes caused by people wanting to change the classic
8-space tab model) with a desired outcome.
Perform `make www` to perform the above and test under macOS.
While not strictly necessary, replacing the two ASCII tab characters
in the markdown copyright comment makes it easier to detect problematic
TAB indentation within markdown files.
After this commit, only 90 markdown files have leading ASCII TAB
characters. And again, while not strictly necessary, we can consider
running expand on those 90 markdown files to see what effect that
might have on the HTML files they produce.
Replace leading ASCII TAB characters with multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE
characters (the default action of the `expand(1)` tool) might have
an negative effect on some HTML formatting where **hack-a-round**
formatting was attempted to fix broken indentation caused by
problematic ASCII TAB characters.
Think of this as a baseline for evaluating leading
TAB characters within markdown files.
TODO: Consider either using `expand(1)` to replace leading ASCII
TAB characters with multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE characters AND/OR
modifying the appropriate `bin` tool to convert leading ASCII TAB
characters into multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE characters.
We fix more markdown links in markdown files that refer to files
internally to the web site.
Added tmp tools to find and print various markdown links:
* `tmp/md-links.sh` - print all markdown links
* `tmp/md-token-links.sh` - print all markdown links that start with a **%%TOKEN%%**
* `tmp/md-local-links.sh` - print all markdown links to a local file
* `tmp/md-link-paths.sh` - print local file paths referenced in markdown links
Fixed a number of markdown formatting problems with `thanks-for-help.md`.
Fixed markdown links to files in `thanks-for-help.md`. Improved
heading levels in `thanks-for-help.md`, and made entry sections consistent.
Changed all markdown links that end in "))" to end in a better way.
Explained in `markdown.md` why we are avoiding markdown links that
end in "))".
Ran `make www` to perform the above.
TODO: Fix stuff we broke by mistake doing the above.
TODO: Fix more broken markdown links.
We added a space between the markdown triple code mark
and language that was enclosed in HTML comments.
So a line of the form:
````
```<!---c--->
````
became:
````
``` <!---c--->
````
This was done to **help** some code see that the HTML comment
string was not a markdown code specifier. Not all code
understands this after this changed. For example, `pandoc(1)`
still forms HTML classes of the form "<!---c-->"
when it encounters the above mentioned change.
We also fixed a problem with `2019/dogon/README.md` regarding
a markdown code block.
We also fixed a problem with `2020/yang/README.md` regarding
a markdown code block.
When language is specified in a markdown code block such as:
````
```c
printf("Hello, world!\n");
```
````
is used, the resulting HTML as produced by `pandoc(1)` combined
with our revised `ioccc.css` is not intent the code block well.
A temporary "_hack-a-round_" is to turn the "markdown code language
specifier" into an HTML comment. For example:
````
```<!---c-->
printf("Hello, world!\n");
```
````
This commits turns off existing markdown code language specifiers
for now, while preserving our ability to restore them in the future
when a better "_hack-a-round_" to the "markdown code language
specifier" problem is found.
The HTML impact if this "_hack-a-round_" is to produce HTML that
looks like this:
```
<pre class="<!---c-->"><code> .. </code></pre>
```
We might be able to create a complex set of classes for each markdown
code language (there won't be very many) in `ioccc.css`, or we might
find a more general CSS (or maybe `pandoc(1)`?) solution.
For now, this hack-a-round will have to do.
All code blocks in markdown have been intended by at least 4 spaces.
We add `--tab-stop=8` to all `pandoc(1)` executions in order to set
a better tab stop indentation, especially for tab intended code blocks.
Changed `bin/pandoc-wrapper.sh` VERSION from "1.5.3 2024-03-26"
to "1.6 2024-03-31".
Fixed `1991/brnstnd/sorta.README.md` so that the sorta code
is code blocks.
Removed unneeded paragraph group in copyright in `inc/footer.default.html`.
Fixed excess whitespace after list Author on entry `index.html` page.
Changed `bin/output-index-author.sh` VERSION from "1.5.2 2024-03-26"
to "1.6 2024-03-31".
Performed `make www` to perform the above and test under macOS.
TODO: Fix the problem of the initial line of code being extra intended.
TODO: Fix excess whitespace around code that is inline.
The inc/footer.default.html now has a common Copyright and CC BY-SA
4.0 License section for all generated HTML files.
All markdown files have a similar Copyright and CC
at the bottom in the form of an HTML comment.
The alt code was just a patched (by Yusuke Endoh) version (two strings
were strdup()d) that still required -traditional-cpp. He is still
credited in the thanks file but one can do make diff_orig_prog to see
what was changed to make it not require -traditional-cpp and Yusuke's
fix is there too. The thanks file details what I had to do to make it
work without -traditional-cpp and his change is still there as well. It
seemed to serve no purpose to have an alt version that requires one to
use -traditional-cpp when one can just look at the original code if they
want to see what it was like back in 1986.
As requested on GitHub: a tool that will be written, readme2index, will,
as explained:
'... will take the converted HTML from the README.md markdown and
inject it into an HTML template. Things such title, award one and
author information will be injected into the HTML page ahead of the
HTML that was converted from the README.md markdown. Without going
into details of HOW at this time, the result will be a coherent HTML
index.html page with the winner title / award, winning author
information, and important file links come from other sources and
NOT from the README.md file.
The text from the 1st award line, thru the authorship information,
and up to but not including the "## To build:" line in the README.md
file will just get in the way. Moreover authors might be tempted to
try and maintain that top of README.md text instead of working with
the author/_author_handle_.json and winner .winner.json files.
This was done with my[0] sgit(1) (https://github.com/xexyl/sgit) tool like:
sgit -o -n -e '/^## To build:/,$p' '[12][0-9][0-9][0-9]/*/README.md'
[0] Is that shameless self-promotion? I don't know but I don't care: it
is generally a very useful tool and has been used in other repos too.
Besides, I've done it many times before and it's a great example that I
will be adding to the README.md file of the tool, one I hadn't thought
of doing.
As the 'Alternate code' and 'Original code' heading level is now 2 the
'To build' and 'To use' subsections should be level 3, not 4, and also
reworded, this was done:
sgit -e 's/^#### To build/### Alternate build/g' -e 's/^#### To use/### Alternate use/g' '*README.md'
Many more have to be updated and this will be done manually at another
time.
The use of the markdown trailing whitespace to indicate
line break should NOT be done when the following line is empty.
This removes such improper use of whitespace in README.md files.
Add explicit rule to compile alt code and update CFLAGS to include (if
CC is gcc) -traditional-cpp. Clang does not support it. If CC is cc it
might support it depending on the system (macOS gcc is actually clang so
it won't but linux it will). This allows just running instead of:
make CFLAGS+="-traditional-cpp" alt
to do:
make CC=gcc alt
but still allowing for the former which might be necessary if CC is not
defined to be gcc.
The README.md points out that in macOS gcc is clang.
Improve the command (in the thanks file) of how to see the difference
between the -traditional-cpp version and the fixed version so that it
doesn't need git but rather just diff (as git diff is unnecessary here).
Note that there is discussion about new make rules that will make this
type of thing not needed so the thanks file would be updated at this
point for that to just refer to the FAQ (or not say anything about it at
all).
NOTE: this is just one way to fix the problem described below but it can
be modified - perhaps greatly changed - or rejected and done
differently. That being said it does isolate the entries that can be
modified except for the one by Simon Cooper as I had intended to do all
entries before a commit but I am too tired to continue and there are
more important things to be done for the IOCCC (hopefully later today).
I don't mind but I wanted to save Landon some of the work as I started
the problem even though all with good intention after Landon noted he
wanted to thank those in the README.md files.
First I would like to also apologise to any previous winners if there
was upset or concern; this was all done with the best intentions and I
know that it was a fine line but the judges' goal is to make it so
previous entries do work in modern systems so that everyone can enjoy
them. Still I am sorry if I caused any offence or anything else! I
actually agree with the situation and I had been wondering about how to
go about it too. Now for the rationale behind this update.
A couple previous winners have voiced concern about the way the thank
you notes are displayed in the README.md files I have started the work
to save Landon some of the trouble as although it was with good
intentions (and based on the note that Landon wanted to thank those who
fixed an entry) I started the problem so it seems only right that I help
rectify it. I also agree with the problem and had thought of it before,
even thinking that in some entries it needs not have any reference to
anyone but the winner! This commit has removed the thank you notes from
several entries and added a THANKS.md file.
The THANKS.md file has the rest of the entries that were fixed as well
which should if nothing else help isolate the entries that need to be
modified. Some entries actually referred to me but were not a thank you
note due to a fix; some were from winners themselves for instance.
Note that I did not update the bugs.md file or any other file that might
refer to these things in the README.md files. The bugs.md for instance
refers to adding credits to those who fix problems or provide missing
links or files to the respective README.md files and this will have to
change once the way this is done is finalised. But hopefully this is a
help to Landon so that he may also focus on the important jprint tool in
the mkiocccentry repo.
This was done quite easily with a bit of thought. I generated a script
that could be modified in vim if necessary (as it turned out to be
though some of it could have been generated too but I did not think of
everything at once and it is a hack).
This is how I generated it:
echo '#!/bin/bash' > bin/check_awards.sh ; ( while read -r g ; do echo grep "$g"; done < <(sed -e 's,_,/,g' -e 's/"/\\"/g' tmp/year-auth-prize.csv | awk -F, '{print grep "\x22" $2 "\x22" " " $1 "/" "README.md"}' ); ) >> bin/check_awards.sh
Then I I modified the file (again this was a hack to make it easier and
quicker and better for being tired too) in vim to make the grep use -Hc
so I could pipe it to 'grep :0'. This found the files without the right
award. So the final command was:
sh bin/check_awards.sh |grep :0
though I did have to edit some files several times.
For reference the script has been added to the repo too but with +x
permissions.
This change also required updating the CSV file in tmp/.
This was also a lot of fun to fix. It took a fair bit of tinkering but
it was a lot of fun to figure out and now it works like it does with
-traditional-cpp!
Removed this entry from the bugs.md file as it now works.
Also added to the bugs.md a minor clarification about another entry
that is in status INABIAF (about warnings).
In some files changed the formatting was fixed to be a proper markdown
file.
There were some typos including that some README.md files that linked to
/winners.html#Cody_Boone_Ferguson actually linked to the non-existent
file /years which obviously would not work.
I also added links to the rest of the places I have fixed entries (but
see below) and I did the same for Yusuke Endoh's fixes.
As well apparently one entry I thought he fixed to compile under modern
systems does not seem to so that entry will have to be revisited another
time. That entry was 1993/jonth.
Those are the main changes here if not all of them.
Although under linux it compiled (as long as the compiler supports
-traditional-cpp) it did not function correctly. We used a patch from
Yusuke Endoh. Thank you Yusuke!
1986/wall will not compile under the default gcc (as it's actually
clang) with macOS as it requires -traditional-cpp which unfortunately
clang does not support.
Also fixed many of the README.md files.
Removed 1986/bright/bright.orig.c (probably because it won't compile on
modern systems but maybe not; I did that change a while back but didn't
finish working on 1986 until just now).
Cody Boone Ferguson