Preprocessing CSS

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 05/24/2016 03:03 PM, Seb wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 18:47:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Is ddoc intended to generate css?
>>
>> Yes. Ddoc is a general preprocessing engine, much like m4 discussed in
>> the article I mentioned.
>
> I had a very hard time to get used to Ddoc and all the custom D macros,
> but still I think the idea of shipping such a general engine with the
> compiler is great. However we should make it more powerful then. Can't
> we allow CTFE in Ddoc?
> This would help a lot!

That would be the domain of more advanced formatting engines such as 
ddox. I wanted to get into ddox in the "I'll give myself 15 minutes to 
do this" manner two times - even tried to redo my personal website with 
ddox. I had to give up mostly due to documentation issues and 
installation difficulties, but to my credit - :o) - I did send Sönke a 
detailed email with what happened.

> I have made a couple of improvement's to the dlang.org, but they all are
> JS "post-processing" hacks, because at the moment one can't do this in Ddoc
> See e.g.
>
> https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/1288 (adding anchors)
> https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/1307 (showing list of contributors)
>
> A lot of other stuff (LaTeX support, search index, grouped overview menu
> etc.) would also be possible then.

Agreed, there's a lot of opportunity there.


Andrei