Subject: Re: alternating tags in a list? From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:13:27 +0000 (GMT) |
Paul Prescod writes: > There will never be a program that can take an arbitrary TeX document and > extract the words from it reliably. Never, ever, ever. Not just unlikely > -- impossible. > and he cites Dan Connolly as saying: For example, I conjecture that it is impossible to write a program that will extract the third word from a TeX document. These are both non-starters as claims, because there is no formal definition of what "words" are! However. David Carlisle's `challenge text' \let~\catcode~`76~`A13~`F1~`j00~`P2jdefA71F~`7113jdefPALLF PA''FwPA;;FPAZZFLaLPA//71F71iPAHHFLPAzzFenPASSFthP;A$$FevP A@@FfPARR717273F737271P;ADDFRgniPAWW71FPATTFvePA**FstRsamP AGGFRruoPAqq71.72.F717271PAYY7172F727171PA??Fi*LmPA&&71jfi Fjfi71PAVVFjbigskipRPWGAUU71727374 75,76Fjpar71727375Djifx :76jelse&U76jfiPLAKK7172F71l7271PAXX71FVLnOSeL71SLRyadR@oL RrhC?yLRurtKFeLPFovPgaTLtReRomL;PABB71 72,73:Fjif.73.jelse B73:jfiXF71PU71 72,73:PWs;AMM71F71diPAJJFRdriPAQQFRsreLPAI I71Fo71dPA!!FRgiePBt'el@ lTLqdrYmu.Q.,Ke;vz vzLqpip.Q.,tz; ;Lql.IrsZ.eap,qn.i. i.eLlMaesLdRcna,;!;h htLqm.MRasZ.ilk,% s$;z zLqs'.ansZ.Ymi,/sx ;LYegseZRyal,@i;@ TLRlogdLrDsW,@;G LcYlaDLbJsW,SWXJW ree @rzchLhzsW,;WERcesInW qt.'oL.Rtrul;e doTsW,Wk;Rri@stW aHAHHFndZPpqar.tridgeLinZpe.LtYer.W,:jbye is valid TeX, and most TeX->XX converts fall over on it badly, but a proper TeX->XX converter has no real problems. It is, of course, possible to have a program that 100% reliably parses TeX code and emits text in other formats. You simply take the TeX code and extend it! Omega is an example of this - it has a mode in which it writes out math expressions as MathML, and it can naturally parse any TeX, because it *is* TeX.[1] Sorry to be off topic for most people, but we TeXxies have an instinctive defence instinct Sebastian Rahtz [1] ok so its unfinished, and this isnt true, but the principle holds. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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