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 * Email: Hans Aberg <mailto:[log in to unmask]> * Home Page: <http://www.matematik.su.se/~haberg/> * AMS member listing: <http://www.ams.org/cml/>