[texhax] Grammar BNF of the TEX system

[Philip TAYLOR]

Martin Schröder wrote:


> You will learn that there is an excellent book about TeX by
> Knuth, and that there are at least two converters for TeX ->
> HTML. And you will learn why there is no real BNF of TeX.

But there /could/ be a BNF for the subset of the commands
that Patricia et al intend to use.  If they avoid catcode
changes, I believe that it might be possible.

** Phil.
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>> On 2006-02-20 10:12:48 +0100, Patricia Stoffel wrote:
>> 
>>>Our idea is transform a Tex-file into code HTML. For this, we need the BNF
>>>grammar of the TEX-langage to adapt it  at our needs (we do not want use all
>>>the grammar, and limit our-selves at some commands) .
>> 
>> 
>> I suggest you learn more about TeX. The wikipedia is a good
>> starting point, as is the TeX-FAQ (http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq).
>>