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Replacing all custom macros and standardizing papers written in TeX
Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara
Planned maintenance scheduled April 17/18, 2019 at 00:00UTC (8:00pm US/Eastern)Plain TeX macros with obeylines and no delimiters.Plain TeX vs. LaTeX MacrosReplacing all dots in a documentShowing definition of macros with custom characters?Recursively defined macros in TeXTeX macro idioms, or: understanding advanced macrosCustom document classes with embedable external macros?True `macros' in (La)TeXreplacing macros parameters by its definitionTeX Live - Names of all standard macros (the one proposed by TeX Live Utility)
I would like to be able to replace every single user-defined macro in papers written in TeX by its definition. That is, if TeXing is considered to be a function f and my standardizing script is function g I want fg(x)=f(x)for any TeX code x that can be TeXXed without errors.
From similar questions others have asked before it is clear that this will require some really hard work because TeX is extremely customizable. Well, I still want to do it.
I do want to know what I'm about to get into though.
Do I essentially need to almost create half of a TeX engine (i.e. the input processor and the expansion processor)?
Assuming that the work is actually finished. Will I have to keep updating my code for the rest of my life in order for it to remain compatible with latest packages even though Knuth's TeX engine itself permanently remains stable?
If the goal in 1 and 2 are indeed infeasible for one person to reach during leisure time, is it feasible for me to achieve something less ambitious, namely making sure that at least 50% of the actually existing papers on arXiv gets successfully standardized? The papers are almost always written in LaTeX often using one of the AMS packages. However they tend to include low-level code such as
defand sometimes evenletwhich causesde-macroto be ineffective in standardizing them.
I'm reading Knuth's The TeXbook right now.
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I would like to be able to replace every single user-defined macro in papers written in TeX by its definition. That is, if TeXing is considered to be a function f and my standardizing script is function g I want fg(x)=f(x)for any TeX code x that can be TeXXed without errors.
From similar questions others have asked before it is clear that this will require some really hard work because TeX is extremely customizable. Well, I still want to do it.
I do want to know what I'm about to get into though.
Do I essentially need to almost create half of a TeX engine (i.e. the input processor and the expansion processor)?
Assuming that the work is actually finished. Will I have to keep updating my code for the rest of my life in order for it to remain compatible with latest packages even though Knuth's TeX engine itself permanently remains stable?
If the goal in 1 and 2 are indeed infeasible for one person to reach during leisure time, is it feasible for me to achieve something less ambitious, namely making sure that at least 50% of the actually existing papers on arXiv gets successfully standardized? The papers are almost always written in LaTeX often using one of the AMS packages. However they tend to include low-level code such as
defand sometimes evenletwhich causesde-macroto be ineffective in standardizing them.
I'm reading Knuth's The TeXbook right now.
macros
asked 5 mins ago
Ying ZhouYing Zhou
787
add a comment |
I would like to be able to replace every single user-defined macro in papers written in TeX by its definition. That is, if TeXing is considered to be a function f and my standardizing script is function g I want fg(x)=f(x)for any TeX code x that can be TeXXed without errors.
From similar questions others have asked before it is clear that this will require some really hard work because TeX is extremely customizable. Well, I still want to do it.
I do want to know what I'm about to get into though.
Do I essentially need to almost create half of a TeX engine (i.e. the input processor and the expansion processor)?
Assuming that the work is actually finished. Will I have to keep updating my code for the rest of my life in order for it to remain compatible with latest packages even though Knuth's TeX engine itself permanently remains stable?
If the goal in 1 and 2 are indeed infeasible for one person to reach during leisure time, is it feasible for me to achieve something less ambitious, namely making sure that at least 50% of the actually existing papers on arXiv gets successfully standardized? The papers are almost always written in LaTeX often using one of the AMS packages. However they tend to include low-level code such as
defand sometimes evenletwhich causesde-macroto be ineffective in standardizing them.
I'm reading Knuth's The TeXbook right now.
macros
asked 5 mins ago
Ying ZhouYing Zhou
787
I would like to be able to replace every single user-defined macro in papers written in TeX by its definition. That is, if TeXing is considered to be a function f and my standardizing script is function g I want fg(x)=f(x)for any TeX code x that can be TeXXed without errors.
From similar questions others have asked before it is clear that this will require some really hard work because TeX is extremely customizable. Well, I still want to do it.
I do want to know what I'm about to get into though.
Do I essentially need to almost create half of a TeX engine (i.e. the input processor and the expansion processor)?
Assuming that the work is actually finished. Will I have to keep updating my code for the rest of my life in order for it to remain compatible with latest packages even though Knuth's TeX engine itself permanently remains stable?
If the goal in 1 and 2 are indeed infeasible for one person to reach during leisure time, is it feasible for me to achieve something less ambitious, namely making sure that at least 50% of the actually existing papers on arXiv gets successfully standardized? The papers are almost always written in LaTeX often using one of the AMS packages. However they tend to include low-level code such as
defand sometimes evenletwhich causesde-macroto be ineffective in standardizing them.
I'm reading Knuth's The TeXbook right now.
macros
macros
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Ying ZhouYing Zhou
787
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Ying ZhouYing Zhou
787
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Ying ZhouYing Zhou
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787
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