Re: syntax

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Siep Kroonenberg wrote:

>  > TeX ignores spaces atthe beginningof the line, so the comment becomes
>  > one space, and the context argument handler takes care of such
> spaces.
> 
> Glad to learn this. Some non-reproducible mysterious behaviour must
> probably be ascribed to other causes.

I spent a lot of time making things as robust as possible within the
concept of tex. Some of the things I encountered are described in the
syst-* files. The biggest problem (unsolvable) is the error messages.
There is no way to hook error recovery in tex. High on the NTS agenda. 

>  > Especially the logical blank's can enforce consistency.
>  >
>  > Hans
> 
> Ah! More indirection! But I see where I would want to use this.

The nice thing about indirection is that you can change it halfway
without redefining all kind of things. There is also indirection in
references. 

Hans

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