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-% 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:
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% 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