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@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +# badroff + +A basic typesetting system. As the name implies, it is a bad imitation +of a basic idea of roff. Commands are structured like /^.\*$/, but they +are not turing-complete or even fully handle boxes or glue and the like. +Breaking a line does not use hyphenation or the like, instead only +breaking on spaces. Non-breaking spaces are included, and some ad-hoc +centering and leaders, so that I could create a specific document (it, +`phrase-circuit.src` is included as an example and as a test). + +# Building + +Just run `make` (parallelism does work, so `make -j8` is recommended) to +build the binary `badroff`. + +# Architecture + +`badroff.c` contains most of the ad-hoc logic, and `sb.c`, `buf.c`, and +`ll.c` have helper data types. `buf.c` is a buffer, intended to be used +on top of a file so that it can peek several bytes in without complex +interfacing with other components (it also makes getting n characters +out in a string easy). `ll.c` is a basic linked list for multiple +strings, and `sb.c` is a "string buffer": a bunch of strings get added +into the buffer and then decomposed into a single string. + +`badroff.c` starts with some helpers which fill buffers from a file with +a couple of string manipulation helpers too. Then, the next section is +composed mainly of typesetting commands available in a badroff file. +`accumlines` is used with `endgroup` to create groupable statements +like collecting multiple lines into one or typesetting multiple lines +as if they were one. The final section is generic handling of commands, +cleaning up trailing whitespace and nonbreaking spaces, the normal +typesetting algorithm, classifying lines as command/non-command, and +mainloop. + +# Bugs + +It mostly segfaults on line overfill (i.e. trying to center oversized +text or unfoldable lines are completely unhandled). Error handling +should probably be used, but that is a nontrivial addition. + +Nonexistent commands also cause segfaults. |