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Re: portable LaTeX
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Hans Aberg <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 9 Dec 1998 23:30:52 +0100
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At 22:59 +0100 1998/12/09, Marcel Oliver wrote:
>I was proposing an automated checker for [verification of syntax correctnes].

Then you have a problem.

>Sure, but you can't really cause too much trouble without \def,
>\expandafter and friends, and these clearly do not belong in a
>portable format (while some form of \newcommand should be allowed for
>reasons discussed some time ago).

The problem is not only within LaTeX, but with respect to the inofrmation
other tools should extract: That is what is forcing a more complex syntax
also within LaTeX. And then you need a tool to check that syntax.

But that tool can perhaps be merged with the editor (like emacs), or a
separate program.

  Hans Aberg
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