Re: more LaTeX (was: Re: emacs and beginning of lines)

[Marcin Borkowski]

Dnia 2014-09-10, o godz. 23:55:16
Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> napisał(a):

> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:
> 
> > No, I mean that with some documents it might be
> > non-obvious whether the fragment the point is in is a
> > text or programming one.
> 
> No, I understood, but that is the only way it could be
> possible. How else?
> 
> But I think this might be a non-problem in practice. I
> did lots of homepages and I never experienced this as a
> problem. And I don't remember ever thinking of it
> either, so it really cannot be a problem.

Well, you're probably right.  What I meant is this: some people use
TeX macros as "templates" to fill in some repetitive text.  Pieces of
TeX documents with such macros seem to be "programming" and "text" at
the same time...  Though this is not *that* common practice.

> Never heard of LuaTeX but it doesn't supprise me because
> Lua seems to be like a "glue" language (perhaps as Perl
> used to be) that just appears and sticks between the
> bigger and bulkier building blocks...

Agreed.

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Adam Mickiewicz University