Re: [ox-publish] handling of white space in arguments of macros, named arguments?

[Achim Gratz <Stromeko@Nexgo.DE>]

Am 27.03.2013 17:26, schrieb Nicolas Goaziou:
> I think all newline characters should be replaced with a whitespace
> character in macro arguments. Indeed, macro templates are only one line
> long but unwanted "\n" could be inserted by paragraph filling in
> arguments.

I'm not sure about that, it would mean that there'd need to be 
additional syntax to insert linebreaks.

> I also don't mind trimming arguments again, provided this is added as an
> explicit behaviour and there is no opposition to it.

How about making trimming explicit during the expansion of macro 
arguments?  It seems that there are a few possibilities of what trimming 
could mean, so this would be an opportunity to allow them all (n is the 
argument number):

$:n  - remove whitespace and linebreaks before argument
$.n  - remove whitespace and linebreaks after argument
$n   - same as $:.n
$+n  - replace whitespace and linebreaks inside arguments
        with a single space
$*n  - same as $:+.n
$~n  - literal argument (no trimming)


Regards,
-- 
Achim.

(on the road :-)