"Announcing: XPSTeX" . A joke. Really ?

"Announcing: XPSTeX" . A joke. Really ?

[luigi scarso]

ok, it's a joke
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pdftex/3404
(but the best is
http://www.google.com/tisp/
)

But my question is:
Will be  "easy" in luatex to implement  a new output format
(dvi,pdf,xps,<<my-xml>>,<<my-bin-format>>)
driven by command line ?

Actually
$>texmfstart texexec --pdf a.tex ==> a.pdf
$>texmfstart texexec a.tex ==> a.dvi
ie, tex=>pdf  or tex=>dvi
because pdftex has two native output format.

Of course one can use workflows tex=>dvi=>ps=>pdf
tex=>dvi=>html by external tools,
or one can write a tex macro that write on file whatever one wants,
but it's not what I mean.


luigi

Re: "Announcing: XPSTeX" . A joke. Really ?

[Hans Hagen]

luigi scarso wrote:
> ok, it's a joke
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pdftex/3404
> (but the best is
> http://www.google.com/tisp/
> )
>
> But my question is:
> Will be  "easy" in luatex to implement  a new output format
> (dvi,pdf,xps,<<my-xml>>,<<my-bin-format>>)
> driven by command line ?
>   
in principle yes, and i will look into that some time next year; it 
relates to the fact that we can intercept tex's data flow any place any 
time, also when producing output

i'm nos saying that it's easy ... as always fonts will be the tricky part

Hans

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