Add comments.

Remove nested paired braces also.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tmac/hyphenex.pl b/tmac/hyphenex.pl
index 493303f2..310f9b06 100644
--- a/tmac/hyphenex.pl
+++ b/tmac/hyphenex.pl
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #
 # Written by Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org>.
 #
-# Version 1.0 (2003/04/16)
+# Version 1.1 (2003/04/17)
 #
 # Public domain.
 #
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #
 #   [perl] hyphenex.pl < tugboat-article > hyphenation-exceptions
 
+# print header
 print "% Hyphenation exceptions for US English,\n";
 print "% based on the hyphenation exception log article in TUGBoat.\n";
 print "%\n";
@@ -28,37 +29,50 @@ print "\n";
 print "\\hyphenation{\n";
 
 while (<>) {
+  # retain only lines starting with \1 ... \6 or \tabalign
   next if not (m/^\\[123456]/ || m/^\\tabalign/);
+  # remove final newline
   chop;
+  # remove all TeX commands except \1 ... \6
   s/\\[^123456\s{]+//g;
-  s/{(.*?)}/\1/g;
+  # remove all paired { ... }
+  1 while s/{(.*?)}/\1/g;
+  # skip lines which now have only whitespace before `&'
   next if m/^\s*&/;
+  # remove comments
   s/%.*//;
+  # remove trailing whitespace
   s/\s*$//;
+  # remove trailing `*' (used as a marker in the document)
   s/\*$//;
+  # split at whitespace
   @field = split(' ');
   if ($field[0] eq "\\1" || $field[0] eq "\\4") {
     print "  $field[2]\n";
   }
   elsif ($field[0] eq "\\2" || $field[0] eq "\\5") {
     print "  $field[2]\n";
+    # handle multiple suffixes separated by commata
     @suffix_list = split(/,/, "$field[3]");
     foreach $suffix (@suffix_list) {
       print "  $field[2]$suffix\n";
     }
   }
   elsif ($field[0] eq "\\3" || $field[0] eq "\\6") {
+    # handle multiple suffixes separated by commata
     @suffix_list = split(/,/, "$field[3],$field[4]");
     foreach $suffix (@suffix_list) {
       print "  $field[2]$suffix\n";
     }
   }
   else {
+    # for `&', split at `&' with trailing whitespace
     @field = split(/&\s*/);
     print "  $field[1]\n";
   }
 }
 
+# print trailer
 print "}\n";
 print "\n";
 print "% EOF\n";