Re: [BLACKBOX] LaTeX for BlackBox ?

From: [at]} <Aubrey.McIntosh{>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:19:26 -0600

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Web is just a hypertexed Pascal with comments. The utilities Tangle
and Weave produce the flat TeX and Pascal for printing and compiling.

As to why it would make sense, I went through a phase when I thought
rewriting things in Oberon would be a good idea.


On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Wojtek Skulski
<skulski{([at]})nowhere.xy
> I heard that TeX was written in WEB, whatever it happens to be.
>
> From the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX
>
> The original source code for the current TeX software is written in WEB,
> a mixture of documentation written in TeX and a Pascal subset in order
> to ensure portability. For example, TeX does all of its dynamic
> allocation itself from fixed-size arrays and uses only fixed-point
> arithmetic for its internal calculations. As a result, TeX has been
> ported to almost all operating systems, usually by using the web2c
> program to convert the source code into C instead of directly compiling
> the Pascal code.
>
> Having read the above I am wondering why it would make any sense to
> port this behemoth to BlackBox? My remark is not criticism. Maybe
> it makes sense. I am not seeing it yet.
>
> I happen to believe that effort would be better spent on some other
> project, such as embedded BlackBox running on top of ucLinux kernel,
> for example. That would be kool. But I have no idea how it could be
> possibly done, so I better shut up.
>
> W.
>
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 Aubrey.McIntosh{([at]})nowhere.xy
>
>> From time to time I think, since TeX is written in Pascal, that it
>> could be easily ported to BlackBox. I never make much progress.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Wojtek Skulski
>> <skulski{([at]})nowhere.xy
>> > Robert and Doug:
>> >
>> > I cannot contribute to your project because I lack
>> > the required knowledge. But I do have a suggestion.
>> > Have a look at the WinEdt page for ideas. It might even
>> > turn out that all your needs are already solved by the WinEdt
>> > author(s).
>> >
>> > http://www.winedt.com/
>> >
>> > W.
>> >
>> > On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Douglas G. Danforth wrote:
>> >
>> >> Robert,
>> >> I would also like such a capability.
>> >> My Unix experience is getting very old so I don't think
>> >> I can be of much help here but I can give it a go.
>> >> I looked at LaTeX some years ago and blanched at the
>> >> complexity. Donald Knuth was trying to keep his books
>> >> looking the same but, in my opinion, did a disservice to the
>> >> field by foisting TeX and MetaFont, and .. LaTeX upon us.
>> >> Oh, well, the physics community seems to us it a lot.
>> >> -Doug Danforth
>> >>
>> >
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