[texhax] A Comprehensive list of TeX primitives and Plain TeX macros

[Barbara Beeton]

hi, paul,

    I'm looking for the above in order to create a pronunciation dictionary for
    my speech synth.

    The glossary in TeX by Topic contains a fair number of the primitives but
    not all of them.

from a quick look at the file tex.web it
appears that all the entries destined for
the index by use of the prefatory string
  \.{\\
are primitives.  what follows the third
backslash can be either a string of letters
or a single non-letter.  of course there
are numerous duplicates, but given knuth's
propensity for careful documentation, i
expect the results of extracting all these
entries would yield a complete list.

separately, i've sent paul a copy of a
list of all control sequences in plain and
ams-tex, but as mentioned already, not all
primitives are necessarily used in plain,
so the plain/amstex list may not be
complete in that regard.
						-- bb