Allow different tag labels

[tevpg]

Current TT tags are alpha-alpha-digit-[digit*]

Want to allow any kind of tag syntax

Well, within reason. I think a tag would be defined as a sequence of at least 2 alphanumerics, and is unique across case folding and numerals of the any digits. So

• AB and ab fails the uniqueness requirement
• AB1 and AB01 fails the uniqueness requirement

Implications:

• identify tags by their presence in config file not by their syntax
• tag inventory and audit can no longer assume tag syntax
• optionally config has a re pattern to restrict tag formats - used when typing tags and when loading config & datafiles.
• tags are case-folded and numeric sequences have leading 0's compressed away
• sorting rules: hmmmm. Probably sort based on a canonical/sorting representation which pads all numeric sequences to - i dunno - ten digits or something; after that applies a simple alpha sort
• tagid attributes:
  • mostly as-is, though want a 'sorting' representation
  • '.simple' -- the tag in its simplest form -- useful for comparing, and this is what would be used in tables like the invetory matrix etc
  • '.sorting' -- the tag with all its numeric sequences expanded to some long number of digits, so that a simple alpha compare/sort will then work

Tag inventory

  tagid tagid tagid tagid tagid tagid tagid
  In    Out   Ret   In    -     Out   Out

  tagid tagid tagid tagid tagid tagid tagid
  In    Out   Ret   In    -     Out   Out

where the layout is determined by the longer of the longest tagid (though at least 2); then
simply run together for the length of a line

Audit matrix

More or less the same - but do not need the statuses

Web reporting

Tag history and such may not have meaning in the same way. Consider the wen reports and recognize