I totally misunderstood the even/odd spec. Add some docs, remove my 'left+' hack, and orthogonalize left/right versus even/odd so you can specify them independently.

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/runoff b/runoff
index 3dee1cc..345fb2e 100755
--- a/runoff
+++ b/runoff
@@ -89,21 +89,20 @@ perl -e '
 			next;
 		}
 		
-		if(/(left|right)(\+?): (.*)/){
+		if(/(left|right): (.*)/){
 			$what = $1;
-			$tens = ($2 eq "+" ? "5" : "0");
-			$file = $3;
+			$file = $2;
 			if(!defined($toc{$file})){
 				print STDERR "Have no toc for $file\n";
 				next;
 			}
-			if($what eq "left" && !($toc{$file} =~ /^\d[$left]$tens/)){
-				print STDERR "$file does not start on a fresh left page [$toc{$file}]\n";
+			if($what eq "left" && !($toc{$file} =~ /^\d[$left][05]/)){
+				print STDERR "$file does not start on a left page [$toc{$file}]\n";
 			}
 			# why does this not work if I inline $x in the if?
-			$x = ($toc{$file} =~ /^\d[$right]$tens/);
+			$x = ($toc{$file} =~ /^\d[$right][05]/);
 			if($what eq "right" && !$x){
-				print STDERR "$file does not start on a fresh right page [$toc{$file}] [$x]\n";
+				print STDERR "$file does not start on a right page [$toc{$file}] [$x]\n";
 			}
 			next;
 		}
diff --git a/runoff.spec b/runoff.spec
index 17bb821..a082193 100644
--- a/runoff.spec
+++ b/runoff.spec
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 sheet1: left
 
+# "left" and "right" specify which page of a two-page spread a file
+# must start on.  "left" means that a file must start on the first of
+# the two page.  "right" means it must start on the second of the two
+# pages.  The file may start in either column.
+#
+# "even" and "odd" specify which column a file must start on.  "even"
+# means it must start in the left of the two columns.  "odd" means it
+# must start in the right of the two columns.
+
 # types.h either
 # param.h either
 # defs.h either
@@ -26,7 +35,7 @@ even: proc.h  # mild preference
 #     allocproc userinit growproc fork
 # and another with
 #     scheduler sched yield forkret sleep wakeup1 wakeup
-right+: proc.c   # VERY important
+right: proc.c   # VERY important
 
 # setjmp.S either
 # vm.c either