Re: [colorforth] Extending the character set - Take II

[Mark Slicker <maslicke@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is also what Knuth's Tex typesetter does. All kind of symbols are
given names like:

\lbrack for [
\lbrace for {
...

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Chuck Moore wrote:

> I've had in mind several hacks to allow colorForth to produce web pages. I
> see that Ting is talking about Forth Markup Language also.
>
> We need an anti-space tag. It backspaces over the space that normally
> follows a word, thus constructing McKean out of 2 words.
>
> We also need a plethora of formatting words. These could be blue and would
> be executed at display time. 'cr' and 'pp' come to mind, as do the HTML
> tags. Parentheses, like emphasis, could be such.
>
> Anti-space could be a blue word. There's a choice between tag and blue for
> these purposes. Tag is cheaper, but there're only 16. This needs to be
> thought out.
>

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