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- From: mueller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Carl Douglas Mueller)
- Subject: Re: basic interpreter -- *not* folklore
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.145305.26801@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
- Reply-To: mueller@schaefer.UUCP (Carl Douglas Mueller)
- Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics
- References: <721582209.862497.BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG> <2385@usna.NAVY.MIL>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 14:53:05 GMT
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- >In article <721582209.862497.BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG> BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG (bbeeton) writes:
- >!darrell mccauley asks (comp.text.tex, november 10) if it's true
- >!that someone actually wrote a basic interpreter in tex.
- >!
- >!andrew marc greene of mit wrote such an interpreter, and presented
- >!a paper about it at the 1990 tug meeting. the paper appears in the
- >!proceedings of that meeting, published in tugboat 11 #3 (september
- >!1990), pp 381-392. the interpreter is called basix.tex, and the
- >!full macro listing is given in an appendix -- all 477 lines of it.
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- Is this thing available on the net somewhere for ftp (or could someone
- send a copy to me)? This sounds extremely interesting!
-
- Carl Mueller (mueller@math.wisc.edu)
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