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Typesetting APL with L^AT_EX: the APL front end APL2T_EX

Authors:

Andreas Geyer-Schulz,

Gustaf NeumannAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad, Volume 23, Issue 3

Pages 22 - 27

https://doi.org/10.1145/165650.165658

Published: 01 March 1993 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper we present an APL publishing system for LAT_EX which supports typesetting of APL publications and documents in a mixed hardware, multiple vendor APL environment. It requires minimal maintenance and is in the public domain. The system has two components, the LAT_EX document style option apl.sty and the APL2TEX front end. apl.sty currently provides the full symbol sets of the APL dialects APL2/370, APL2/PC, Dyalog APL, I---APL, Sharp APL, and APL.68000 Levels I and II. All APL symbols are constructed with the symbols of the standard LAT_EX font family. No special fonts are needed. The APL2TEX front end is a workspace containing a preprocessor for converting APL objects to LAT_EX logical document elements. APL2TEX is currently available for APL2/370, APL2/PC, Dyalog APL and APL.68000 Levels I and II.

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Cited By

de Almeida P(2007)Generating APL printouts with a2psACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad10.1145/1286361.128636335:3(18-23)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1286361.1286363
de Almeida P(2004)Typesetting APL dialectsACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad10.1145/1088529.108853434:2(28-31)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2004
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1088529.1088534

Index Terms

Typesetting APL with L^AT_EX: the APL front end APL2T_EX
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document preparation
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types

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cover image ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad

ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad Volume 23, Issue 3

March 1993

23 pages

ISSN:0163-6006

DOI:10.1145/165650

Editor:
Robert G. Brown

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Published: 01 March 1993

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de Almeida P(2007)Generating APL printouts with a2psACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad10.1145/1286361.128636335:3(18-23)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1286361.1286363
de Almeida P(2004)Typesetting APL dialectsACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad10.1145/1088529.108853434:2(28-31)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2004
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1088529.1088534

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