Comments on: More on XeTeX primitives http://www.texdev.net/2009/05/17/more-on-xetex-primitives/ Coding in the TeX world Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:48:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Joseph Wright http://www.texdev.net/2009/05/17/more-on-xetex-primitives/comment-page-1/#comment-985 Joseph Wright Thu, 28 May 2009 12:07:34 +0000 http://www.texdev.net/?p=296#comment-985 Jonathan said he would commit this "soon": obviously a bit sooner than he'd said to me! Jonathan said he would commit this “soon”: obviously a bit sooner than he’d said to me!

]]> By: Vafa Khalighi http://www.texdev.net/2009/05/17/more-on-xetex-primitives/comment-page-1/#comment-984 Vafa Khalighi Thu, 28 May 2009 11:42:10 +0000 http://www.texdev.net/?p=296#comment-984 The good news is the extensions are in. The good news is the extensions are in.

]]> By: Vafa Khalighi http://www.texdev.net/2009/05/17/more-on-xetex-primitives/comment-page-1/#comment-944 Vafa Khalighi Mon, 18 May 2009 04:34:04 +0000 http://www.texdev.net/?p=296#comment-944 WEB and Pascal are the same language as Donald Knuth says on page X of his Computer & Typesetting/ TeX: the program textbook: (I have read half of the book so hopefully after TUG conference I will continue to read. It is as interesting as TeXBook and he also at the beginning of the book says that the reader should be familar with TeXBook. He explain every single algorithm in TeX and also demonstrates why some specific aspect of TeX are done in certain ways.) ``A WEB program is a Pascal program that has been cut up into pieces and rearranged into an order that is easier for a human being to understand. A Pascal program is a WEB program that has been rearranged into an order that is easier for a computer to understand. In other words, WEB programs and Pascal programs are essentially the same kind of things, but their parts are arranged differently. You should be able to understand a Pascal program better when you see it in its WEB form, if the author of the WEB form has chosen a good order of presentation. Before you try to read a WEB program, you should be familar with the Pascal language.'' WEB and Pascal are the same language as Donald Knuth says on page X of his Computer & Typesetting/ TeX: the program textbook: (I have read half of the book so hopefully after TUG conference I will continue to read. It is as interesting as TeXBook and he also at the beginning of the book says that the reader should be familar with TeXBook. He explain every single algorithm in TeX and also demonstrates why some specific aspect of TeX are done in certain ways.)

“A WEB program is a Pascal program that has been cut up into pieces and rearranged into an order that is easier for a human being to understand. A Pascal program is a WEB program that has been rearranged into an order that is easier for a computer to understand.

In other words, WEB programs and Pascal programs are essentially the same kind of things, but their parts are arranged differently. You should be able to understand a Pascal program better when you see it in its WEB form, if the author of the WEB form has chosen a good order of presentation.

Before you try to read a WEB program, you should be familar with the Pascal language.”

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