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From: LEICHTER@VENUS.YCC.YALE.EDU ("Jerry Leichter ", LEICHTER-JERRY@CS.YALE.EDU)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: re:  LaTeX language definition for LSE
Message-ID: <8807110119.AA02899@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 8 Jul 88 15:46:00 GMT
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	We have recently begun to use the Language Sensitive Editor (c) from
	DEC, and I was wondering if any of you had defined LaTeX (c) as a
	language for LSE.  The editor seems to have many nice features, and
	there are lots of people here that could and would use it if its
	features were available for other things besides the standard
	languages (ie FORTRAN, C, Pascal, etc). Since LaTeX is so similar to a
	programming language, it seems logical to define it as a language and
	to use the full power of LSE when generating LaTeX files.  I do not
	have  the time, nor probably the expertise, to correctly define all of
	the LaTeX  constructs.  If you have or know of such a beast, I would
	appreciate it if you would drop me an e-note to bew@rti.rti.org,
	bew@argon.rti.org, or bew@rti.uucp.  If there is enough interest and
	if I get any usable responses, I will post them to the net.

An LSE template for LaTeX is available from TUG, the TeX User's Group.  (See
Appendix J of the TeXbook for information about how to contact TUG.)  The
template and documentation are not free, but they are not expensive (tens of
dollars - mainly distribution costs).  I believe versions of the same stuff
have also appeared on DECUS tapes in the past.

I don't use LSE so can't comment directly on this stuff, but I gather that
people are pretty happy with it.

	Since I am mostly a novice to posting, if I have broken netiquette, or
	if there is a more appropriate newsgroup for this posting, please 
	"inform" me via email rather than via posting since there is no point 
	in wasting bandwidth on flames when there will probably be lots of
	flames.

No, this is a reasonable place to ask, given that you are asking about some-
thing VMS-specific (LSE).  Another place to try, which is much more appropri-
ate for more general TeX- and LaTeX-related questions, is the TeXhax list.
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							-- Jerry