[tex-live] texdoc under windows

[Reinhard Kotucha]

Frank Küster writes:

 > I'm the one who started to rewrite texdoc in Perl.  I think that it
 > would definitely be better to do it in texlua.  If there are any
 > problems, let's see this just as a real-world testing example, and if
 > any internals change, well, it's just going to be a couple of replaces
 > in the script.
 > 
 > The only problem is that I don't know lua at all, and that I won't have
 > much time for software development when I start my new job in August.  I
 > had hoped to be able to produce something useful in Perl until then, but
 > I'm definitely sceptical about doing the same in lua.

Yes, I think that it's best to continue writing in Perl under these
circumstances.  Lua is quite new for me too though I have the book
"Programming in Lua".  I could try to translate it to texlua, but I
can't guarantee that I can finish it before it is needed.

Let me know what you are going to do.  At the moment I'm writing a
script which converts 7/8-bit encoded files tu UTF-8, but it's not
much work any more.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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