There turned out to be one blocking technical issue for full adpotion of
tpa format, and that was the fact that the printed representation of
floating values inside the tpa file might not reproduce the same double
when read. This change therefore introduces the "hexact" floating point
format, based on the the %La format string, which produces a hex
representation with exact round trips. While working on this, it was
convenient to add a new representation "compact" which is basically the
shorter of decimal and scientific representations, without trailing zeros.
This is now the default float format, but of course one can select decimal
or scientific formats to restore prior appearance. However, full-precision
compact format is now the (only) format for editing cell contents, as it
is accurate and efficient. Of course you can enter floating point values
in any format you like when typing in a formula.
The addition of several new floating point options overloaded the menus
in terminal teapot, so this change also revamps those menus slightly,
including eliminating the unused MenuChoice struct, and just specifying menus
with an array of strings.
Closes#63.
So far, this jst consists of initializing color in curses mode, and making
the display start and end part of intializing and freeing a sheet (so that
it can control allocating the palette, for example, where the data structure
used depends on what kind of display it is.
Next up will be to allocate and destroy the color palette, and set up the
default colors for cells to use (0 for foreground,
TEAPOT_WHITE for background.) The outline beyond that is to allow setting of
the cell colors, then actually display those colors, and finally edit the
palette.
Glen Whitney