[Remind-Fans] Changes coming to Remind...

[Dianne Skoll]

Hi,

I've been working on a big change to Remind and it's now ready for
testing.  Anyone who uses TkRemind, or who maintains or wants to maintain
back-ends such as tools to convert Remind to other formats... please have
a look at the git repo: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/git/Remind.git/

Remind has a new option "-pp" that's similar to "-p", but uses a new
JSON-based serialization format documented in rem2ps(1).  This format contains
a lot more information about the REM trigger, allowing in many cases for
Remind semantics to be preserved by converter programs.  For example,
a weekly-recurring reminder can now be recognized as such from the output
of "remind -pp"

TkRemind takes advantage of this to eliminate the need for the gross
# TKTAGxxx comment blocks that store the state of the GUI with the reminder;
TkRemind is now able to reverse-engineer the GUI state directly from the
"remind -pp" output.

THIS IS STILL EXPERIMENTAL.  If you try it out, back up your tkremind-created
reminders because deleting or modifying a TkRemind reminder will delete
all the old TkRemind comments!

TkRemind, rem2ps and rem2html have all be upgraded to understand the new
"remind -pp" format.  (rem2ps and rem2html still work with the old "remind -p"
format as well.)

Anyway... please give it a try.

Regards,

Dianne.