Re: temp file name conflicts in unattended document generation

[ecashin@coe.uga.edu (Ed L. Cashin)]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

> Ed L. Cashin wrote:
> 
> > > the mp files is important, because in a next release I will
> > > introduce extensive embedded graphic support, acting on graphic
> > > layers etc. Of course the texexec option file is also protected now.
> > 
> > I am really looking forward to learning to use those features.  I
> > think that some of them are documented in some presentation papers
> > by Hans Hagen that I read a long time ago.
>
> I suppose you refer to the presentation file in the NTS suite?
> That's indeed what I'm working on. 

I don't know!  I was looking for them yesterday, but I've lost track
of where they are online.  They were presentations.  One paper would
do something interesting, usually with context and metapost, and then
the next one would go even further.  There were about five of them.

> The interesting fact is that embedded graphics introduce a sort of
> new way of thinking on graphics and text, at least for me -), since
> one is dealing with the text flow as well as layers, so what is
> covering what and depending on what and where and so on. A main
> point is how to communicate between tex and mp and hide that for the
> user.

That is an ambitious goal.  BTW, last night I gave a presentation on
perl programming to UGA's ACM, and many people there were very
impressed by the context-generated document that I was using for
handouts and a full-screen slide show.  I was able to get in some
proselytizing for context!

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