Re: A proposal for texexec

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 07:31 PM 6/19/00 +0200, Slawek Zak wrote:
>"Berend de Boer" <berend@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> > I think that it would be trivial to implement (there already is
>> > --result option for texexec).
>> 
>> Or fix the viewers :-) They should attempt to open the file for exclusive
>> use or with deny write or something like that: if not possible the file is
>> not yet ready. These viewers are too greedy.
>
>Well, this is a desired behaviour. When the file is recompiled (newer
>than the it was) they try to reopen and redisplay it. Good thing. It
>wouldn't break if the refresh happened only when you make the viewer
>redisplay it's window :)

The solution would be to use a temp file for processing. However, the
problem is that in that case the jobname changes as well as all auxiliary
files. This is not a problem in a stand alone or final run, but not that
handy when debugging files, since in some aspects the filename is
important. So, it's not that trivial. I can write a complement to --result
(--temp) but I wonder if it wouldn't introduce other problems. 

Hans 
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