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From: Taco Hoekwater <bittext@quicknet.nl>
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Ed L Cashin wrote:
> 
> Giuseppe Bilotta <oblomov@freemail.it> writes:
> 
> ...
> > 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
> 
> There's no end to features that would be nice, but time is limited.
> I'd much rather have interesting metafun-type stuff than have context
> worrying about my non-context tools.

I agree with Ed completely. Besides, it is not all that simple
to figure out a) what format to use, b) how many times TeX
needs to be run, c) what programs have to be called in-between.

Greetings, Taco