Re: Roll-Your-Own Stand-Alone (Was re. ConTeXt ultraminimals)

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Joel C. Salomon wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>  >  > I'm going to defer working on [Perl & Ruby].
>>
>>  >  we dont't need full perl and ruby; perl only when you want to use
>>  >  mptopdf, which is not needed because texexec can do the same; so, a
>>  >  small ruby is enough
> 
> Is it also possible to use MK IV (or some other lua scripts) to
> convert .mp files to PDF by any chance? (I'm only asking - this is not
> a feature request.)

Using (tex)lua instead of perl should be simple, I can probably
do that over the weekend. It would still be based on the mkii
code, but at least that removes the perl dep.

Best wishes,
Taco

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