[texhax] Any crazy math formulas for testing a TeX language interpreter

Peter Wilson herries.press at earthlink.net
Wed Jan 13 21:59:27 CET 2016



On 13/01/16 20:17, Deyan Ginev wrote:
> On 01/13/2016 02:46 PM, Barbara Beeton wrote:
>> re the bcs test, doug mckenna reports:
>>
>>      Fortunately, Barbara Beeton kindly found in archives and sent me the entire bcs test ported to the plain format.  I pasted all of its source code into my monograph test file and, feeling like I was about to jump off a cliff, typeset it with both pdfTeX and JSBox.
>>
>> what i sent wasn't ported from latex to
>> plain; it was (i believe) the original
>> which *was* prepared in plain tex.  the
>> file is dated october 1985, which may
>> be later than the original date, but is
>> certainly from before latex was really
>> in wide use.
>>
>
> In the interest of all reading the thread, would you mind sharing the
> file in a publicly-accessible way? Say as a GitHub gist[1], pastebin[2],
> or something of the sort?
>
> Thanks!
> Deyan
>
> [1] http://gist.github.com/
> [2] http://pastebin.com/

I always thought that CTAN was publicly accessible.

Peter W.
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