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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/tex/plain/base/list-latin.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/tex/plain/base/list-latin.tex index 71d5bb6d9a1..09e27dd479a 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/tex/plain/base/list-latin.tex +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/tex/plain/base/list-latin.tex @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ -% This program by D. E. Knuth is not copyrighted and can be used freely. % Makes a listing of one or more files % Extended to allow the Latin-1 accented characters in UTF-8 encoding % Typical usage: @@ -63,32 +62,3 @@ % at present, it's indistinguishable from newline (^^J). % You can get up to 103 characters on a line without an overfull box. - -% Further notes from Don, January 2017: -% -% Maybe I'm the only person left who still uses plain TeX in a UTF-8 world. -% -% But for what it's worth, I'm appending a little file that I prepared today, -% since it turned out to be useful in a project of interest to me. -% -% Namely, I've got a program that takes an XML encoding of organ-pipe -% settings, used by performers when they change the stops during a -% performance, and translates it into a human-readable form. -% I mean, the output says "when you reach combination nunber 0013, -% the following ranks of pipes are set to play". -% -% The names of those ranks of pipes often contain accented characters, -% as well as things like the German \ss. In order to use such texts on the Web, -% I have them in UTF-8 code. But to make a verbatim hardcopy listing using -% nice typewriter-style fonts, I wanted a program like "list.tex", which -% I've been using to print text files for more than 25 years. -% -% Fortunately, the accented characters all turn out to be two-character -% sequences in UTF-8, where the first character is always '303. So I -% can simply make that character active, and it can then change the -% following character appropriately. -% -% Therefore I added a few lines to "list.tex", resulting in "list-latin.tex". -% And it works! Hence it might be a useful addition to the CTAN archives. -% -% Yours truly, Don |