In article <3DCD268A.14673.1B949E@localhost>, Tim Wegner <twegner@swbell.net> writes:
I have struggled mightily with indent in the past. The problem is that there are many commenting styles in fractint. There is no one indent configuration that doesn't totally trash some of the comments extensively.
By "trash" the comments, do you mean the comments don't survive intact, or they are just ugly?
I would LOVE, though, to have a consistent coding style. I guess what we have to do is decide a set of indent settings, determine what commenting style those settings support, and massage the comments as we touch files.
This is a topic laced with so much opinion, that I suggest rather than debating the pros and cons of our own favorite indenting styles that we just select one that's already standard in the open source community -- namely the GNU indenting style.
OK. Now I am confused about what we propose to start with. Do you propose to convert your Allegro version (based on Rich's changes) back to X, and have that be our starting point? Does that have all the changes of the latest patch?
I'm confused too -- I can't remember how the Allegro version fits into all of this. Jonathan, can you refresh us? -- Ask me about my upcoming book on Direct3D from Addison-Wesley! Direct3D Book <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/> izfree: Open source tools for Windows Installer <http://izfree.sourceforge.net>