From cb36f073844d5ebbd05ca30507acc17222ec8357 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aleteoryx <alyx@aleteoryx.me>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 20:34:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] cleanup debug statements

---
 .gitignore |  1 +
 README.md  |  1 +
 gloss.py   | 13 ++++---------
 markup.c   |  8 +++++---
 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 .gitignore

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..534afa61597090d20ee208113498936dbeedf7e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/markup
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e1b59890a756d0f30935efc2aa148e689ed6a105..8b6b5207b751416e1d0898a2c6b1ebafafca6b6a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ it is designed to maximize nonlinear browsing.
 ***
 
 the central gloss.py script translates each .gls file in its input directory to a .html in its output.
+to run it, you will need a python runtime and a C compiler. make sure to download the entire repo.
 
 .gls files are composed of a names section, a set of blocks, and an optional "see also" section.
 
diff --git a/gloss.py b/gloss.py
index 5a17559c4fec193086a1f71f5762cb7b217802bb..bf534cb39a50a6e96bc31493152c7d53bb9e97af 100755
--- a/gloss.py
+++ b/gloss.py
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ def first_pass(slug, fp):
 		elif block_type == 'quote':
 			if line.startswith('>'):
 				line = line[1:].strip()
-			block_text += "\n" + line
+			block_text += ' ' + line
 		elif block_type == 'para':
 			block_text += ' ' + line
 	
@@ -124,25 +124,21 @@ class Markup:
 
 		if stat(self.cfile).st_mtime > stat(self.bfile).st_mtime:
 			print("recompiling markup subsystem...")
-			runcmd(['cc', self.cfile, '-DDEBUG', '-o', self.bfile, '-Wall'], check=True)
+			runcmd(['cc', self.cfile, '-o', self.bfile, '-Wall'], check=True)
 			print("recompiled!")
 		
 		self.proc = Popen([self.bfile, 'convert'], stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, text=True)
 	
 	def process(self, text):
-		print(f'{text=}')
 		self.proc.stdin.write(text+"\n")
 		self.proc.stdin.flush()
 
 		segments = []
-		while (line := self.proc.stdout.readline()) != '':
+		while (line := self.proc.stdout.readline()) not in ('NEXT\n', ''):
 			ty = line[0:4]
-			if ty == 'NEXT':
-				break
 
 			length = int(line[5:9])
 			ltext = line[12:12+length]
-			print(f'{ltext=}')
 
 			if ty == 'HTML':
 				segments.append((ltext,))
@@ -152,8 +148,7 @@ class Markup:
 				segments.append(ltext)
 			else:
 				print(f'read in unknown type "{ty}" from markup subprocess', file=stderr)
-		
-		print(segments)
+
 		return segments
 			
 
diff --git a/markup.c b/markup.c
index 5501850e8255b133e06f0e92ac348a57812e2439..1d5765780b35398ddf2cc23f73f6c08e2fa06d46 100644
--- a/markup.c
+++ b/markup.c
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ new_segment(int type, size_t length, const char *text)
 	new->text = text;
 	new->next = NULL;
 
-	fprintf(stderr, "new_segment @ %p: %d / %zu / %.*s\n", new, type, length, (int)length, text);
+	if (DEBUG)
+		fprintf(stderr, "new_segment @ %p: %d / %zu / %.*s\n", new, type, length, (int)length, text);
 
 	return new;
 }
@@ -152,7 +153,7 @@ segmentize(size_t length, const char *source)
 {
 	// p is the start of the most recent text segment
 	const char *p = source, *i, *newi, *end = source + length;
-	int in_italic = 0, in_escape = 0;
+	int in_italic = 0;
 	struct segment *head = new_segment(SEG_HEAD, 0, NULL), *ret;
 	struct segment *tail = head;
 	struct segment *italic_head, *italic_tail;
@@ -286,7 +287,8 @@ convert()
 	struct segment *seg;
 
 	while((s = nextline()) != NULL){
-		fprintf(stderr, "processing line: %s\n", s);
+		if(DEBUG)
+			fprintf(stderr, "processing line: %s\n", s);
 		length = strlen(s);
 		seg = segmentize(length, s);
 		for(; seg != NULL; seg = seg->next)