Gnocl -the Tcl/Gtk Bindings

Its been almost a month since a last posting. How time flies. Most of my time has been taken up between making some final adjustments to my Ph.D thesis prior to submission and chasing up a whole pile of work related matters. But now, for a while at least, I can give some more attention to Gnocl. The last issue that I was working was inserting/retrieving Pango markup strings with a GtkTextBuffer. After solving something of a glitch in adding tags to single characters (I'd completely forgotten that iters are invalid after changes to the content of text buffer. Resolved the problem through the use of markers as in function that I've just added to the code:         GtkTextMark *tagStart, *tagEnd;         GtkTextIter start, end;                 tagStart  = gtk_text_buffer_create_mark (buffer,"tagStart", iter, 1);         ...

This is not so easy a 'nut to crack'. I've noticed that the solution that I've come up with so far fails to implement nested markup, ie <b> <s> text </s></b>. Conversely, getting the <span> </span> block is an issue too! Clearly there is a need for this functionality, but there is no clear solution that I can find. The Gimp developers are working on something similar but I notice that they have problems with <span> too! So, I've gone back to basics. Rather than relying the pango string parser, I'll put something together of my own. Today I've been working on some extra string funcs. Here's what I've produced so far: /* gcc -o first first.c */ #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h>   /**     search for first occurance of p in s, starting from i     done **/ int strnfrst(char *s, char *p, int i) {         char *f;         int l;                 l = strlen(p);  /* length of search string */         f...