Re: ConTeXt TeXUtil

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Berend de Boer wrote:

> > Also keep in mind that only since Thomas and Sebastian started their
> > distributions, unix installation became straight forward!
> 
> hmm, Sebastian has to create the first cd which installs for me :-)

I meant unix installation out-of-the-box. 

> I find it easy because I can copy the TDS tree and everything work almost
> out of the box.

Yes, I still have to install this tree (I run upto 4 different tex's and
many viewers and drivers, so they all must ge a palce). 

> > (2) TeXUtil should also run on all platforms (easy because it is perl).
> 
> texutil didn't work for me on Win95. (haven't installed perl on my NT
> system). I suggest you replace CheckInputFiles by

Strange, because I use W95. 

> sub CheckInputFiles
>   { my ($UserSuppliedPath) = @_ ;
>     @UserSuppliedFiles = glob $UserSuppliedPath;
>   }
> 
> and add a
> 
>         require File::DosGlob 'glob'
> 
> somewhere. This will work on Unix systems too I assume because the shell
> does the expansion so DosGlob doesn't do anything. Now texutil doesn't
> expand if I type 'texutil --figures'.

Did you try texutil --fig *.eps *.png? 

TeXUtil has many options/features and I do not always want 'all files'. 

> > (4) Maybe someday we will also port our ;project oriented' editing
> > environment.
> 
> Nothing outside emacs for me :-)

I'm looking into that, but I didn't see yet hoe I can implement instant
browsing there (I want it real fast, especially because I constantly
switch between many files). 

Hans 

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