In <[log in to unmask]> David Carlisle <[log in to unmask]> writes: > LaTeX evidently has a syntax based on Pascal, but this syntax is not > explicitly part of LaTeX, only something that the developers of LaTeX use > internally >I think you are probably referring to the pascal-ish comments that were >in the sorces for latex209 and some remain in the `oldcomments' sections >in the current sources. Leslie Lamport used those while designing the <nitpick> AFAIK it is not pascal-ish, but classic algol68-like pseudocode. :-) </nitpick> Best regards Martin -- Martin Schr"oder, [log in to unmask] - If I start up a C shell and put it up to my ear, what will I hear? - You'd hear the sound of the C, of course, as it repeatedly crashes on the silicon beach. (The Usenet Oracle, Jan 1993)