doc/loupe-test.txt
changeset 14 3c57a6fd0a13
parent 5 f600b0d1fc5d
child 19 05d082ebf685
     1.1 --- a/doc/loupe-test.txt	Fri Jan 27 10:30:16 2012 +0000
     1.2 +++ b/doc/loupe-test.txt	Tue Jan 31 19:20:36 2012 +0000
     1.3 @@ -63,6 +63,86 @@
     1.4  tag, then loupe-test will consider that no expectation exists and won't
     1.5  check the output at all.
     1.6  
     1.7 -There is no support yet for non-ASCII testcases, embedded linefeeds,
     1.8 -passing command line options to bookloupe or for testcases which are
     1.9 -expected to fail.
    1.10 +Non-ASCII testcases
    1.11 +-------------------
    1.12 +
    1.13 +The testcase definitions (the .tst files) are always written in UTF-8
    1.14 +which is a superset of ASCII. Since gutcheck does not understand UTF-8
    1.15 +this causes a problem when it is desired to include characters that
    1.16 +are not in ASCII in a testcase. To solve this problem it is possible
    1.17 +to specify an encoding to use for the test. It is very important to
    1.18 +undertand that this specifies the encoding that loupe-test will use to
    1.19 +talk to bookloupe/gutcheck and _not_ the encoding of the .tst file
    1.20 +(which remains UTF-8). gutcheck understands Latin-1 (at least to a
    1.21 +limited extent), the canonical name for which is ISO-8859-1:
    1.22 +
    1.23 +      ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
    1.24 +      │**************** ENCODING ****************                       │
    1.25 +      │ISO-8859-1                                                       │
    1.26 +      │**************** INPUT ****************                          │
    1.27 +      │"Hello," he said, "I wanted to bave a tête-à-tête with you."     │
    1.28 +      │**************** EXPECTED ****************                       │
    1.29 +      │                                                                 │
    1.30 +      │"Hello," he said, "I wanted to bave a tête-à-tête with you."     │
    1.31 +      │    Line 1 column 31 - Query word bave - not reporting duplicates│
    1.32 +      └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
    1.33 +
    1.34 +Embedded linefeeds
    1.35 +------------------
    1.36 +
    1.37 +One of the tests that bookloupe/gutcheck need to do is check that all
    1.38 +lines are ended with CR NL (as required by PG) rather than the UNIX
    1.39 +standard NL. loupe-test deliberately ignores the line endings in testcase
    1.40 +definition files and always uses CR NL. Thus there is needed a means
    1.41 +to embed a linefeed (aka newline) character into the input to be sent
    1.42 +to bookloupe/gutcheck to test that it correctly identified the problem.
    1.43 +loupe-test recognises the unicode symbol for linefeed (U+240A): ␊ which
    1.44 +can be used for this purpose instead of a normal newline.
    1.45 +
    1.46 +Passing command line options
    1.47 +----------------------------
    1.48 +
    1.49 +Some of bookloupe's functionality is only available using command line
    1.50 +options. loupe-test provides a means of specifying these with the
    1.51 +OPTIONS tag:
    1.52 +
    1.53 +		┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
    1.54 +                │**************** OPTIONS **************** │
    1.55 +                │-m                                        │
    1.56 +                │-d                                        │
    1.57 +                │**************** INPUT ****************   │
    1.58 +                │&ldquo;He went <i>thataway!</i>&rdquo;    │
    1.59 +                │**************** EXPECTED ****************│
    1.60 +		└──────────────────────────────────────────┘
    1.61 +
    1.62 +Extra input files
    1.63 +-----------------
    1.64 +
    1.65 +Under certain circumstances, bookloupe reads other input files than just
    1.66 +the ebook. These can be specified in the testcase definition file by
    1.67 +adding the name of the file to the INPUT tag:
    1.68 +
    1.69 +       ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
    1.70 +       │**************** OPTIONS ****************                      │
    1.71 +       │-u                                                             │
    1.72 +       │**************** INPUT(gutcheck.typ) ****************          │
    1.73 +       │arid                                                           │
    1.74 +       │**************** INPUT ****************                        │
    1.75 +       │I am the very model of a modern Major-General,                 │
    1.76 +       │I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,               │
    1.77 +       │I know the kings of England, arid I quote the fights historical│
    1.78 +       │From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;               │
    1.79 +       │I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,      │
    1.80 +       │I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,       │
    1.81 +       │About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news--        │
    1.82 +       │With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.   │
    1.83 +       │**************** EXPECTED ****************                     │
    1.84 +       │                                                               │
    1.85 +       │I know the kings of England, arid I quote the fights historical│
    1.86 +       │    Line 3 column 29 - Query possible scanno arid              │
    1.87 +       └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
    1.88 +
    1.89 +Caveats
    1.90 +-------
    1.91 +
    1.92 +There is no support yet for testcases which are expected to fail.