On 2013-10-09, at 23:50, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:

> Am 09.10.2013 um 10:34 schrieb Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>:
>> 
>> On 08.10.2013, at 23:46, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 08-10-2013, at 2:14 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> So what does a file-out look like?  What's the textual/interchange format e.g. in a Monticello package?
>>> 
>>> Not having looked at Tobias' stuff yet, I'm going to guess that one could use the same style-embedding that we already have
>> 
>> ... except that gets dropped by MC.
>> 
> 
> yeah, for our tools, we re-enabled that.
> the source is Text then and no pure String.
> At first the compiler was confused, but a few 
> well-thrown #asString’s made everyone happy
> again. But I understand methods with style are
> strange or even confusing. Should we try that out?
> 
> best
>    -Tobias

I'd like that. Having rich text as source code used to be a pretty nifty feature. But after we switched to MC and turned on syntax highlighting it did not get used any more.

- Bert -