2 Sep
2014
2 Sep
'14
9:42 a.m.
On Sep 1, 2014, at 11:42 PM, der Mouse <mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG> wrote:
As for it being TeX, well, except for the \ prefix it
doesn't look much
like it. But TeX is sufficiently powerful that it could indeed be TeX
with a relatively elaborate macro package, though it strikes me as
unlikely. (Indeed, it would probably be possible to write a troff
emulation package for TeX - though it would be twisted enough I have
trouble imagining anyone bothering, possibly except for hack value.)
Well, agreed. When I said it wasn't TeX of any sort, I meant it didn't
follow the typical macro patterns of any existing TeX package (LaTeX,
etc.) that I've seen. If you were perverse enough, you could make TeX
work with the commands shown, but since each command is parsed as a
whole word, things like \page211 would require you to define a macro
for each page you wanted to use (to my knowledge, anyway; I haven't
done a lot of deep, deep macro wizardry, but I'm pretty sure the
commands are done as whole words).
- Dave