Re: [BLACKBOX] LaTeX for BlackBox ?

From: [at]} <Wojtek>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:02:29 -0500

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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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