Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!hemuli.tik.vtt.fi!tik.vtt.fi!tml From: tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: help with trip test Message-ID: Date: 26 Feb 91 03:06:53 GMT References: <2532@kluge.fiu.edu> <1991Feb25.110755.25289@cs.nott.ac.uk> Sender: news@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland, Laboratory for Information Processing (VTT/TIK) Lines: 19 In-reply-to: cczdao@mips.nott.ac.uk's message of 25 Feb 91 11:07:55 GMT In article <1991Feb25.110755.25289@cs.nott.ac.uk> cczdao@mips.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne) writes: In article , tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) writes: > Don't bother. I have a TeX implementation based on (another) > Pascal-to-C translator, ptc. Fetch it with ftp from tik.vtt.fi, > directories pub/ptc and pub/tex. If this is on a Unix system, what's wrong with using the web2c package? Why make life more difficult than it is already? :-) When I did the ptc TeX implementation (soon after TeX 3.0 was released), web2c couldn't handle TeX 3.0 et al. (I did try to use web2c initially.) Now this has changed. But still, a general-purpose one-pass Pascal-to-C translator is IMHO cleaner than several passes of programs specially written for translating the Pascal code of TeX, MF etc. -- Tor Lillqvist, working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland