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2 Dec
2005
2 Dec
'05
10:46 a.m.
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?