[M3devel] Latex M3 language definition

[Tony Hosking]

I'm halfwa done on some of that, so hang on a mo'.

On Aug 11, 2007, at 8:44 PM, Rodney M. Bates wrote:

> I propose to fix up m3-defn-complete.tex as much as possible before
> adding the WIDECHAR, WIDETEXT, and LONGINT stuff.  That way, we can
> have an up to date-PM3-definition.  The .tex I found does not have
> any face tags for the code samples in the running text (as does the
> .html), nor does it have anything denoting the hyperlinks in it.
> I guess they will have to be inserted manually. This would quite a
> bit of stuff to try to merge with the CM3 changes, if they were to get
> done first.
>
> Other than that, the .tex looks like the actual content is very close
> to identical to the .html one-page form.  I did a careful parallel
> reading, (as close as mere mortals could have much hope of doing).
> So the .tex is not exactly the predecessor that the .html was derived
> from.  I have done some net searching trying to find another .tex,
> but to no avail, so far.
>
> It does look like latex2html will do what is needed, particularly
> allowing tex tags that will turn into hyperlinks in html and get
> ignored by latex for a printed version.  It also appears to have
> something for optionally generating multi-page html as well.  I think
> there is a successor to it, but haven't checked that out yet.
>
> -- 
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> Rodney M. Bates, retired assistant professor
> Dept. of Computer Science, Wichita State University
> Wichita, KS 67260-0083
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> rodney.bates at wichita.edu