On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 03:13:38PM +0200, Rudolf Sykora wrote:
>
> Just to be sure. I don't mean readability of documents to be typeset.
> I mean the source code of the whole system. I.e., in the case of LaTeX,
> the readability/understanding/hackability of the macros' definitions.
>
And this links to another thread: the base plainTeX system, with fonts,
is 8Mo; with the AMS this may reach 16Mo. With LaTeX and al. (I don't
use, but others do and I need to test somewhat), the whole thing reach
250Mo. PlainTeX is not a litteracy exercice, sure, but is documented and
small. And riding piggyback on plainTeX, I'm mainly covering my needs.
And I decided to use plainTeX whan I saw that there were less pages,
written by the author: D.E. Knuth to explain fully how to use and
program TeX, than pages trying partly to explain how to use LaTeX
without attempting to explain how TeX was working underneath. And if one
doesn't understand TeX, one is unlikely to even have a clue about why
the LaTeX macros do not do what one supposed them to do...
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