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Document basic TeXbook terms required by LaTeX3

Open josephwright opened this issue 14 years ago • 3 comments

Things like are needed to document a number of functions. Currently, we rely on The TeXbook for this, but in the longer term need to have a set of (formal) definitions.

josephwright avatar Oct 22 '11 06:10 josephwright

Subtleties that could be worth documenting:

  • treatment of spaces (e.g., gotcha in ExplSyntax, \~~a is equivalent to \~a)
  • what tokens can be (meaning, catcode)
  • syntax of integer expressions, dimension expressions, skip expressions.

blefloch avatar Apr 05 '16 18:04 blefloch

Do we want to make this a separate file, say l3term-glossary? That can then be typeset separately, or integrated into interface3, or ....

josephwright avatar Sep 30 '18 13:09 josephwright

I did a tiny bit. Won't have time for more now but maybe we can be motivated to add to the file once in a while.

blefloch avatar Oct 01 '18 20:10 blefloch