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Article #10178CPP is better than TeX--- version.sty: more questions?
From: Joseph Gil
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 1991 17:11
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 1991 17:11
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Hello there,
Another problem I have with the version.sty file is that
\includeversion{SpaceLimited}
\begin{SpaceLimited}
\input{twocol}
\end{SpaceLimited}
includes the file twocol, but doesn't use the def's of page size from
this file.
Anyone out there cares to answer?
Thanks
Yossi
PS
Now- If TeX was a ***decent*** programming language, this would
never have been a problem. Defenders of TeX claim that all its
limitations are due to the fact that it is a macro processor
etc.
but even my C pre-processor is smarter than that, and it is no
problem for it to handle something like:
#ifdef SPACE_LIMITED
#include "twocol.tex"
#endif
and I am sure this would work to cure the other bug I have mentioned
in an earlier posting in the usage of a version environment inside
\title{} command of latex.
maybe, I should run the pre-processor on my files before latex,
however Don knows what's good for me and he doesn't allow me
to run TeX from stdin, which makes my life in a script writing
even more difficult.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!yale!ox.com!hela!widener!ukma!eng.ufl.edu!math.ufl.edu!uflorida!caen!umich!vela!m.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!fernwood!uunet!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!herald.usask.ca!alberta!brazeau.ucs.ualberta.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!ubc-cs!yogi From: yogi@cs.ubc.ca (Joseph Gil) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: CPP is better than TeX--- version.sty: more questions? Message-ID: <1991Jun9.171103.5756@cs.ubc.ca> Date: 9 Jun 91 17:11:03 GMT Sender: usenet@cs.ubc.ca (Usenet News) Distribution: All Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 40