texexec

["Giuseppe Bilotta" <oblomov@freemail.it>]

Hello,

I'm getting so used to ConTeXt that I sometime
run texexec on my LaTeX documents. So I found
that it would be nice if texexec had (possibly
limited) support for non-ConTeXt format, especially
plain and LaTeX.

I could then link .tex files to texexec without worries.

E.g., when texexec recognizing a LaTeX document,
it simply bails out; it would be nice if it closed
the cont-?? session and started a latex session
(possibly running enough times to fix cross-refs, plus
running bibtex and makeindex etc---and stopping after
no more than 10 --configurable-- runs, to prevent
hangups when non-converging LaTeX documents are parsed;
such features are implemented in the MiKTeX program texify).
Plain support would be even less mess. Is it much work to do?

Recognizing a format should not be much work, especially
if using well-behaved distributions AND well-behaved files
that use the %&fmtname metacommand. Well, LaTeX files can be
recognized by \documentclass, anyway. And the user could
always force in some way the format in case of misrecognitions.

Giuseppe Bilotta

Using Microsoft products is like
having sex without condoms---but
much less pleasurable