1 files changed, 19 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/src/sdp/sdp.d b/src/sdp/sdp.d
index c861d1d..375f91f 100755
--- a/src/sdp/sdp.d
+++ b/src/sdp/sdp.d
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ import
   sdp.meta.metadoc;
 import
   std.getopt,
+  std.file,
+  std.path,
   std.process;
 import
   sdp.meta,
@@ -145,13 +147,20 @@ void main(string[] args) {
       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) {
@@ -161,11 +170,11 @@ void main(string[] args) {
       }
       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[]);
@@ -206,8 +215,8 @@ void main(string[] args) {
         }
         enforce(
           fn_src.match(rgx.src_pth_types),
-          "not a sisu markup filename: <<" ~
-          fn_src ~ ">>"
+          "not a sisu markup filename: «" ~
+          fn_src ~ "»"
         );
         auto t = SiSUabstraction!()(fn_src, opts, env);
         static assert(!isTypeTuple!(t));