[cgreek:00021] Re: More tlg utilities

[Robin Smith <rasmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Shinsuke" == Shinsuke Kawazoe <skawazoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Shinsuke> Thank you for your latest version. But after the install
    Shinsuke> of you utilities, I got a following warning concerning
    Shinsuke> you tlg-util.el;

    Shinsuke>    Error in init file: error: "Symbol nil may not be
    Shinsuke> buffer-local"

    Shinsuke> Is this particular to Meadow again?

My stupid mistake: forgot to quote a symbol.  In tlg-util.el, 
change this:
   (make-variable-buffer-local tlg-level-n-name)
to this:
   (make-variable-buffer-local 'tlg-level-n-name)
and do the same thing for the other tlg-level-<?>-name variables.
A quick command would be M-% with string "buffer-local tlg-level"
and replacement string "buffer-local 'tlg-level".  (Just watch to 
make sure they're all in the right places).


    Shinsuke> And when I used Takahasi's original tlg2emacs.exe on
    Shinsuke> your own cgreek-util.el, I found it didn't work well
    Shinsuke> because of a slight difference concerning "defun
    Shinsuke> cgreek-find-file-tlg";


    Shinsuke> Your cgreek-util.el (in lines 992-997);

    Shinsuke>       (shell-command (format "%s %s %d"
    Shinsuke> cgreek-tlg-converter-program filename (charset-id
    Shinsuke> 'cgreek)) t))

    Shinsuke> Takahasi's original;

    Shinsuke>       (shell-command (format "%s -l %d %s"
    Shinsuke> cgreek-tlg-converter-program (charset-id 'cgreek)
    Shinsuke> filename) t))

I think these may be reversed.  Takahashi's program takes either one
or two command line arguments; the first is a filename and the second
is a charset id.  That corresponds to the first text above.  My 
tlgcites2emacs also understands "-l <charset>" and "-f <filename>" 
(and a lot else).  In more recent versions, I changed the command line
parser to (as I hope) understand Takahashi's syntax: if it gets just
two command line arguments (neither of which starts with "-"), then it
treats the first as a filename and the second as a charset value. Since
mine is supposed to work as a substitute for tlg2emacs, try returning
to Takahashi's format, which (again, I hope) should work eith either.

On the subject of Meadow: does anyone have any opinions about whether
command- line quoting conventions are the source of the trouble with
tlg-open-single-work?  I'm not familiar with DOS/Windows.

Robin Smith              
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