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E10 MAPS 39 Kees van der Laan I have included below the essentials of my (plain, what else?) macros for typesetting a multiplication, addition, . . .table, of a decade ago, as supplied in my Publishing with TEXguide, PWT, whichaccompanies blue.tex. The invoke reads \def\dataMT{1\cs 2\cs 3\rs 2\cs 4\cs 6} $$\framed\ruled %...Attributes \bluetable\dataMT$$ Thecreationofthe(general)datacanbedoneasfollows % Creates 1 2 3 % 4 5 6 \def\rows{\c1 \cols \advance\r1 \ifnum\r>\mr \swor\fi \rs\rows} % \def\cols{\te\r\multiply\te\c\the\te \advance\c1 \ifnum\c>\mc \sloc\fi \cs\cols} % \def\sloc#1\cols{\fi}%terminator \def\swor#1\rows{\fi}%terminator \def\rs{\par}%row separator \def\cs{ } %column separator % \mr2 \mc3 \rows %invoke 23 table data TEXmacrowritingofthepast,thepresent,orthefuture? Onemightargue that it just generatesthe data,andthat the complexity ofmarkupisabsent. This is done on purpose adhering to the separation of concerns adage. More general, in my bordered table macros, I rst generate the data and then do with the data whatever I have to do. A consequence of this approach is that the border of a table, which contains usually information about the entries, is handled separately. In blue.tex a table is composed of border, data, and caption or footer, much in the spirit of Knuth’s \bordermatrix. By attributes one can specify framing andilks. My minimal markup macro for creation of the data for the multiplication table is like Knuth’s robust macros timeless, and that is what I ask you to do: write timeless, robust, mean and lean macros in plain TEX, the lowest common subset ofallTEXs,tobereusedinAnyTEX. 8 However,in thisspecialcasethedatacanjustbesupplied,but thatisnottheissue.OK,youarerightweshould start withcreatingalibrary ofreusableparts. Awareness of other tools Phil Taylor in his recent \parshape pre-processor 9 starts with telling that he used HTML,because‘HTMLcanowtextaroundanembedded (rectangular) image in a totally straightforward manner, requiring nothing more than...’. He continues that he would like to use TEX and provided macros, well... his pre-processor. TEX has a more powerful, generalmechanismforplacing images inaparagraph. But... HTML, Word. . . are simplerto use. Beaware. Sveta uses Photoshop interactively for a.o. coloring. MetaPost and ilks allow for coloring in a workow. I don’t know how to achieve by MetaPost the eects Sveta can do inPhotoshop. Libraries for macros and pictures are necessary for reusing parts. AnyTEX is a preprocessor of TEX! TEX itself has a built-in preprocessor called macro expander. MetaPost is a preprocessor of PostScript, and even can produce SVG, with the MetaFont ingenuities inherited. Soat the basisisplainTEX and PS. A nicety in the table chapter of PWT, next to the wealth of examples similar to those given in the TEXbook,andsomemore,isalittlespreadsheetfunctionality,whichcanbeusedin(budget)tablemarkup,toenhancedataintegrity.Itautomatesadditionorsubtraction oftableentries,whichisnotthattrivialbecauseTEXdoes not come withthe ordinary calculatorfunctionalities. 10 This is similar to my plea of long ago in the IFIPWG2.5: write portable numerical (library) algorithms in the lowest higher-level language, FORTRAN, for use in all other higher level languages. Moreover those FORTRAN algorithms could be highly optimized, for example the matrix routines of 0(n 3 ) complexity, with n the order of the matrix. At the computer center of the Groningen University we spelled out the interfacing from PASCAL, ALGOL(68), and Simula to FORTRAN, and supplied users with this information, on-line, together with the availability of FORTRAN numerical libraries. We even contracted CDC to adapt their ALGOL68 compiler towards
TEX Education EUROTEX 2009 E11 FORTRANinterfacing.Realistically,Iexpectthatmyplea willbe partiallyobeyed . . .again. Data integrity is all important. I paid attention to data integrity in among others my bridge macros, where once a card is played, it can no longer show up in the diagrams. Data integrity was also on my mind when Icreated macros fortypesetting crosswords. BTW,inthesuprematisticLozengebelowMondiaanwas nearlyrightindividingthesidesaccordingtotheGolden Ratio.ThisLozengeof1925wasthelastinaseriesending with this minimal one. Others have some colored parts or more lines. P.Mondriaan Lozenge Composition with two lines Thebundlingofthevariousmacros,pictures,references, tools gave rise to my BLUe collection, nicknamed after BenLee User inthe TEXbook. Like Knuth’s plain etc macros and Berry’s eTEX macros, my BLUe collection is composed of parts to be reused in anyTEX. Within BLUe what is needed can be obtained by selective loading, similar to retrieval from a database. One only loads what is needed! Even simpler, when not in the context of BLUe, is just to copy what youneed, asIdid forthisnote, see later. But... that is not simple enough, a library with ready to use modulesiswhatwe need. Fromtheabsenceofmy BLUeinthe FAQsofthe UKTUG, theTEXarchives,andtheTEXcollection DVD,Ipresume thattheTEXcommunitymissedthereuse-of-partsaspect ofBLUe.Partlytrue,asIbecameawareattheconference: the bottleneck isthe copyright. In TEX education language uency is a prerequisite. Teach how to typeset ordinary language, technical jargon, e.g. mathematics, next to awareness of similar tools, the pro and cons ofcompetitors. Insight Characteristicsofinsightare Abstraction SeparationsofConcerns,SoC Parameterization To foresee the future To useTEX&Co To adhere Minimal Markup, Suprematism To useParadigms To reuseparts Dijkstra in the past mentioned that abstraction is our only mental tool to master complexity. As computer users we abstract allthe time. pdfTEX violates SoC adage. I experience a retrograde. Inserting a color for example does not obey the scope rules in pdfTEX. So the goodies of the past are annihilated. Why not keep the past achievements upright? I understand that we don’t have the broad oversight Knuth had, and sin against all kinds of situations we don’t foresee. Add whatever youwant. But... without disturbing the achievements of the past, please. It is no good that a casual user like me is used as a guinea-pig. Test your materials thoroughly before releasing, please. Adhere to the practice of β-releases, such that acasualuseriswarned. MetaFont is the big example of parameterization where each glyph is characterized by dozens of parameters. To handlegracefullyrelatedparametersKnuthinventedthe suffix concept, as far as I understand it is a unication of the common index and the PASCAL record, in the minimal style. In creating pictures it is a good habit to parameterize for the size, because then we can selectively scale. The line thickness is not altered if the size is changed. By blunt overall scaling the line thickness alsochanges, whichmightnot be whatyouwant.
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