Re: Some questions and thoughts from a newcomer

[Xinglu Chen]

Hello,

On Fri, Apr 23 2021, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Good to see you here.  :-)
>
> As you noticed, the “maintainer” is not… ahem… very responsive.
>
> Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz> skribis:
>
>> I recently discovered Skribilo and I really like it so far!  I have some
>> questions thoughts below.
>>
>> - When compiling to a HTML document, the chapters are aligned in the
>>   center, I would prefer to make them left aligned.  Is there are way to
>>   do this?
>
> Via CSS.  There are also cases where the HTML engine emits old-style
> presentation tags like <center>, and we should really fix that.

Yeah, some of them use the <center> tag which is really annoying.

>> - Taking a quick look at the source code, most of the html seems to be
>>   written as strings, would it be possible to refactor it to use SXML
>>   instead?
>
> That’d be much appreciated!  This code predates the inclusion of SXML in
> Guile (and perhaps the inception of SXML, even.)

Ah, ok, then it’s probably older than me too. :)

>> I would be interested in working on some the things I mentioned, but I
>> am still fairly new to Scheme so I won't make any promises. :)
>
> Don’t hesitate to chime in, Skribilo needs some love!

Hopefully I will find some time and send some patches. :)