At 11:49 +0100 98/10/17, Robin Fairbairns wrote:
>latex's syntax has a little bit of regularity, a little bit of block
>structure, ..., but all told it's so uneven that it's silly to imagine
>`formally' specifying it.
Whatever, it is important one makes up one's mind and make that explicit.
>added to which, the extreme difficult of faulting tex primitives,
>etc., that fall outside the scope of the syntax makes the utility of
>such a specification doubtful.
I have noted that some tools, such as spell-checkers, are dependant on a
LaTeX syntax (not working properly if using merely PlainTeX).
Hans Aberg
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