Accomplishments: - Completed a first version of the sandboxed (partial) evaluation of Tcl source artifacts (packages, script files, C extensions) based on a dedicated child/slave interp environment: see ::nx::doc::Sandbox; the test suite and the test documentation builts run on it. - Based on this infrastructure, we can now generate a snapshot of a program's structure to be documented (and contrast it to the explicitly documented structure). - Added simplistic css sprites for visualising the doc entity status (extra, missing, mismatch, complete); see also library/lib/doc-assets/status.svg and library/lib/doc-assets/status.png - The entity status is printed optionally along with the print name of an entity - Added switch-like parts to represent properties of doc entities: @deprecated, @stashed, @c-implemented, @syshook. The implementation and use of ::nx::doc::SwitchAttribute should be reviewed after having figured out how to proceed using "switching" objparams. - I provide a multi-property dispatcher as doc-syntactic sugar and for mere convenience: @property Various: - Corrected some div-boxing mess in the templates - Added a filtered helper to process entity collections - Made the mixin layer infrastructure more symmetric (a revoke operation). - Added tracers for ::nsf::method and ::nsf::alias (remains to be completed) - Renamed ::nx::doc to ::nx::processor and turned it into another mixin layer to trace the doc entity creation in e.g. readin() - Companion (*.nxd) files: Revised the handling of companion files. Temporarily moved generic/nsf.nxd in the top-level directory. We need to find a permanent place as its location is currently derived from the location of the shared extension. A candidate is doc/ but this is not linked to the shared extension location at all. - processor.readin() now returns a collection of entities created during its execution. - Improved robustedness and orthogonality: destroy hooks; the tag-dispatcher can now handle empty comment lines; when placing NSF object tracer, we now use the freshly added introspection of an object system's method aliases.
- Switch to print_name() for rendering entity names for the search box - Fixed the @parameter generation in method.html.tmpl - @glossary: Support for referencing glossary entries with certain formatting annotations: @gls (minor letters only), @Gls (title), @glspl (plural), @Glspl (title plural), ... Added explicit acronym rendering (long and short forms): @acrfirst, @acr; fixing an id-generation issue for @glossary entities - Completed the first round of amending nx.nxd with @glossary entries and references. - I got rid of curly braces ("{", "}") as marker symbols ("{{...}}", "{{{ ... }}}") for formatting fragments of comment blocks. They proofed sufficiently hairy due to their heavily loaded meaning for the Tcl parser (the unclosed brace issue in Tcl comment blocks, the list-like processing in our comment block parser, ...). Instead, I introduced <<...>> for link-like elements (anchors, glossary references) and MediaWiki-like '''...''' blockmarkers for code listings. Thanks to Victor Guerra for reviewing and discussing this concrete-syntactic design decision. - Increased the robustness of line-by-line parsing for comment blocks. Within the comment block parser, we operate on comment lines as Tcl lists (lindex, lassign, ...). While convenient from a processing perspective, this risks limiting the degrees of freedom when writing comments (e.g., using tabs and spaces to indent inline, grouping words to form lists of lists, ...). By leveraging "args" argument processing through [apply] for line preprocessing, we balance the two requirements. - Verified that @use works between objects and methods. - Some cleanup in the mixin layer code - Resolve interp-alias chains to entity class objects explicitly - Adjusting the Container/Containable mechanism to apply only to part classes relevant to particular container entities. - Fixing support for package rendering as top-level entities (e.g., in the leftbar menu) - Providing the project object to all entities subject to template processing. - Declaring some forwarders public explicitly (to reflect recent changes in the reach of default call protection)