Re: Tables and graphs

["George N. White III" <whiteg@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Hi George,
>
> >there may be ways in texexec to specify some programs that should be
> >run before the context processing.  If the programs are simple, it
>
> Texexec has a --convert but currently that is limited to some local xml
> filter. We can generalize that but it can be dangerous so we need to
> discuss it first. Say that there is
>
> --convert=myscript
>
> that takes whatever.abc and converts it into whatever.tex, is it accepted
> that teh old file is overwritten, or should I save it first and restore it
> later?

maybe the input format for the problem at hand (a hook to automate
conversion of some external format into .tex that will be included in a
document)  _should_ be xml.

In any case, "whatever.tex" should only be overwritten if "whatever.abc"
is newer.  This way you have the "whatever.tex" in case you need to study
the contents, and if you edit it and save a new version it won't be
overwritten unless there is a good reason (e.g., the input "abc" file is
changed).

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  Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Nova Scotia, Canada (TZ=AST4ADT)