From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24050 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Zeljko Vrba Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: An idea Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 18:46:53 +0100 Message-ID: <20051202174653.GB3376@fly.srk.fer.hr> References: <20051201162914.GA14497@fly.srk.fer.hr> <20051202165636.GA8858@puritan.petwork> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133546097 22337 80.91.229.2 (2 Dec 2005 17:54:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 17:54:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Dec 02 18:54:55 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EiF38-0005qL-EM for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:50:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 252CD12881; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 18:50:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17878-06; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 18:50:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EF401289C; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 18:46:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 119B11289C for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 18:46:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17665-07-3 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 18:46:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from fly.srk.fer.hr (fly.srk.fer.hr [161.53.74.66]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 113D812882 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 18:46:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from fly.srk.fer.hr (mordor@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fly.srk.fer.hr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jB2HkrF7004283 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 18:46:53 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (from mordor@localhost) by fly.srk.fer.hr (8.12.10/8.12.2/Submit) id jB2Hkrhq004280 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 18:46:53 +0100 (MET) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051202165636.GA8858@puritan.petwork> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0 (fly.srk.fer.hr [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:46:53 +0100 (MET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:24050 Archived-At: On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 05:56:36PM +0100, Nikolai Weibull wrote: > > We were planning on using Vim for preprocessing things like this instead > Vim for preprocessing? Isn't it a bit too painful compared to using a "real" programming language? > > of hacking TeX to do the lexing. I think Mojca (?) had some ideas for > I would agree with that. I never did any serious programming in TeX apart from few simple \defs. > > this and perhaps even a simple implementation, and given that there is > now structured support for preprocessing in texexec I think that this > can be done quite easily. A lot easier than writing something in TeX. > any links to the project?