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From: cheung@mathcs.emory.edu (Shun Yan Cheung)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TeX preprocessor?
Message-ID: <7285@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Date: 1 Apr 91 16:36:32 GMT
References: <1991Mar30.215707.649@basho.uucp>
Organization: Emory University, Dept of Math and CS
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In article <1991Mar30.215707.649@basho.uucp> john@basho.uucp (John Lacey) writes:
'I've been thinking about all these macro sets for TeX, and the increasing 
'problems in sending documents around as sites lack sets that other possess.
'
'Is there any way to write a TeX file that will process another TeX file 
'and reduce it to primitives and then write it out?  I'm thinking of 
'something extremely analogous to the C preprocessor.

A better solution is to have a number of sites for storing widely used macros
and send along obscure macros along with the text. We already have the
former (claremont, clarkson, etc). Now if people would do the latter,
sharing tex/latex files would not be a problem.
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