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From: smithda@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu (J. Daniel Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Typesetting programming languages -- RESULTS
Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, C
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Date: 27 Feb 90 22:12:44 GMT
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In article <4354@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes:
>
>	Thank you everybody who sent me suggestions on how to typeset
>programming languages (like C) in LaTeX.
>[..]
>run something through tgrind, it is hard to edit later.  I'd really prefer
>a system that allowed me to do:
>
>\begin{c_code}
>main()
>{
>	int foo;
>	...etc...
>}
>\end{c_code}

I just read that someone at MIT has written a BASIC interpreter in
TeX.  Given that, I would think it should be possible to program TeX
to do something like this.  Perhaps "\listing{C}{foo.c}" might be
easier...  Even if it didn't have lots of bells and wistles it would
still be much better than the \begin{verbaim}...\end{verbatim} of
LaTeX or the \listing macros from pg. 381 of the TeXbook.

Of course many solutions have already been mentioned (including plain
ASCII output).  However, all of these require a pre-processor of some
kind.  WEB is great, but there are times when a system like the one
mentioned above would be much better.

Any thoughts?
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