doc/misc/gnus-news.el

   1 ;;; gnus-news.el --- a hack to create GNUS-NEWS from texinfo source
   2 ;; Copyright (C) 2004-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   3
   4 ;; Author: Reiner Steib  <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>
   5 ;; Keywords: tools
   6
   7 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
   8
   9 ;; GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  10 ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  11 ;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
  12 ;; (at your option) any later version.
  13
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  18
  19 ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  20 ;; along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  21
  22 ;;; Commentary:
  23
  24 ;;; Code:
  25
  26 (defvar gnus-news-header-disclaimer
  27 "GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
  28
  29 Copyright (C) 1999-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  30 See the end of the file for license conditions.
  31
  32 Please send Gnus bug reports to bugs@gnus.org.
  33 For older news, see Gnus info node \"New Features\".\n\n")
  34
  35 (defvar gnus-news-trailer
  36 "\f
  37 * For older news, see Gnus info node \"New Features\".
  38
  39 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
  40 \f
  41 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
  42
  43 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  44 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  45 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
  46 \(at your option) any later version.
  47
  48 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  49 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  50 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  51 GNU General Public License for more details.
  52
  53 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  54 along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  55
  56 \f\nLocal variables:\nmode: outline
  57 paragraph-separate: \"[         \f]*$\"\nend:\n")
  58
  59 (defvar gnus-news-makeinfo-command "makeinfo")
  60
  61 (defvar gnus-news-fill-column 80)
  62
  63 (defvar gnus-news-makeinfo-switches
  64   (concat " --no-headers --paragraph-indent=0"
  65           " --no-validate" ;; Allow unresolved references.
  66           " --fill-column=" (number-to-string
  67                              (+ 3 ;; will strip leading spaces later
  68                                 (or gnus-news-fill-column 80)))))
  69
  70 (defun batch-gnus-news ()
  71   "Make GNUS-NEWS in batch mode."
  72   (let (infile outfile)
  73     (setq infile (car command-line-args-left)
  74           command-line-args-left (cdr command-line-args-left)
  75           outfile (car command-line-args-left)
  76           command-line-args-left nil)
  77     (if (and infile outfile)
  78         (message "Creating `%s' from `%s'..." outfile infile)
  79       (error "Not enough files given."))
  80     (gnus-news-translate-file infile outfile)))
  81
  82 (defun gnus-news-translate-file (infile outfile)
  83   "Translate INFILE (texinfo) to OUTFILE (GNUS-NEWS)."
  84   (let* ((dir (concat (or (getenv "srcdir") ".") "/"))
  85          (infile (concat dir infile))
  86          (buffer (find-file-noselect (concat dir outfile))))
  87     (with-temp-buffer
  88       ;; Could be done using `texinfmt' stuff as in `infohack.el'.
  89       (insert
  90        (shell-command-to-string
  91         (concat gnus-news-makeinfo-command " "
  92                 gnus-news-makeinfo-switches " " infile)))
  93       (goto-char (point-max))
  94       (delete-char -1)
  95       (goto-char (point-min))
  96       (save-excursion
  97         (while (re-search-forward "^   \\* " nil t)
  98           (replace-match "\f\n* ")))
  99       (save-excursion
 100         (while (re-search-forward "^        \\* " nil t)
 101           (replace-match "** ")))
 102       (save-excursion
 103         (while (re-search-forward "^     " nil t)
 104           (replace-match "")))
 105       ;; Avoid `*' from @ref at beginning of line:
 106       (save-excursion
 107         (while (re-search-forward "^\\*Note" nil t)
 108           (replace-match " \\&")))
 109       (goto-char (point-min))
 110       (insert gnus-news-header-disclaimer)
 111       (goto-char (point-max))
 112       (insert gnus-news-trailer)
 113       (write-region (point-min) (point-max) outfile))))
 114
 115 ;;; gnus-news.el ends here