1 files changed, 20 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/org/sdp.org b/org/sdp.org
index 9cd57bc..d0d7eaf 100644
--- a/org/sdp.org
+++ b/org/sdp.org
@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ unittest {
 #+BEGIN_SRC d
 import
   std.getopt,
+  std.file,
+  std.path,
   std.process;
 import
   sdp.meta,
@@ -316,13 +318,20 @@ foreach(arg; args[1..$]) {
     flag_action ~= " " ~ arg;   // flags not taken by getopt
   } else if (arg.match(rgx.src_pth)) {
     fns_src ~= arg;             // gather input markup source file names for processing
-  } else if (arg.match(rgx.src_pth_contents)) {
-    import std.file,
-      std.path;
+  } else if (arg.match(rgx.src_pth_contents)
+    ||  ((arg.isDir) && ((arg.chainPath("sisudoc.txt").array).isFile))
+  ) {
     string contents_location_;
+    string sisudoc_txt_;
+    if ((arg.chainPath("sisudoc.txt").array).isFile) {
+      sisudoc_txt_ = arg.chainPath("sisudoc.txt").array;
+    } else if (arg.match(rgx.src_pth_contents)) {
+      sisudoc_txt_ = arg;
+    } else {
+    }
     try {
-      if (exists(arg)) {
-        contents_location_ = arg.readText;
+      if (exists(sisudoc_txt_)) {
+        contents_location_ = sisudoc_txt_.readText;
       }
     }
     catch (ErrnoException ex) {
@@ -332,11 +341,11 @@ foreach(arg; args[1..$]) {
     }
     auto contents_locations_arr =
       (cast(char[]) contents_location_).split;
-    auto tmp_dir_ = (arg).dirName.array;
+    auto tmp_dir_ = (sisudoc_txt_).dirName.array;
     foreach (contents_location; contents_locations_arr) {
       assert(contents_location.match(rgx.src_pth),
-        "not a recognised file: " ~
-         contents_location
+        "not a recognised file: «" ~
+         contents_location ~ "»"
       );
       auto contents_location_pth_ = (contents_location).to!string;
       fns_src ~= (((tmp_dir_).chainPath(contents_location_pth_)).array).to!(char[]);
@@ -401,8 +410,8 @@ scope(failure) {
 }
 enforce(
   fn_src.match(rgx.src_pth_types),
-  "not a sisu markup filename: <<" ~
-  fn_src ~ ">>"
+  "not a sisu markup filename: «" ~
+  fn_src ~ "»"
 );
 #+END_SRC
 
@@ -705,8 +714,8 @@ import
 import
   std.array,
   std.exception,
-  std.stdio,
   std.regex,
+  std.stdio,
   std.string,
   std.traits,
   std.typecons,