[tex-live] TexLive on a Live CD
Sebastian Rahtz
sebastian.rahtz at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Mon Oct 4 22:16:34 CEST 2004
David Kastrup wrote:
>a) all of the dtx documentation files could be compiled with Source
> Specials (to DVI, obviously, instead of PDF) and the respective
> line number information for \DescribeMacro and similar extracted
> into separate files, so that Emacs could fire up the respective
> definitions in either the DVI or dtx when asked to. Potentially
> useful for source2e, too. One should also be able to use Source
> Specials for jumping back and forth between DVI and .dtx file.
>
>
let's be honest. how many people are capable of
intelligently browsing dtx files?
my own idea of a live CD is one in which the user writes and reads
in XML, and TeX sits in the background as a formatting
engine when needed :-}
Sebastian
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