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[Christopher Dimech <address@hidden>]

> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2021 at 8:44 PM
> From: "Frank" <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: arXiv
>
> Hello, all
> 
> I would like to point out another fact that TeXmacs supports "TeXmacs 
> Scheme" output which is similar to Scheme programming language, so I don't 
> think that it is quite inaccessible, especially for Lisp programmers. The 
> current formatting is bad but I guess that it is not quite difficult to 
> improve, as it could be passed to the pretty printing:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Pretty-Printing.html

Yes.  The difficulty stems mainly from the deeply nested or complex data 
structures in the source,
in ways similar to what I see with xml.  
 
> I attach a sample.
> 
> Best,
> Frank
> 
> On 7/12/21, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > Beyond the technical, there are other considerations.  Whilst it could be 
> > well structured according to some software engineering metric.
> > But its syntactic format is not more accessible to code modification than 
> > tex or latex, or to any other programming language.  I might
> > understand the production of an internal format that fits in with a more 
> > structured format for what you want to do.  But in doing so, you
> > have removed an important aspect.  Whilst it could be acceptable with 
> > schools and colleges, I do not see how to avoid the observation
> > I have made.
>