Subject: Re: use of Jade TeX backend? From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 16:01:20 +0100 (BST) |
Paul Prescod writes: > It isn't clear to me why we need to develop the TeX back-end and JadeTex no need at all. it was just a working method > the standard Jade back-end so that no special installation was necessary > at all. The output of the TeX back-end could be standard TeX or LaTeX > files that could be processed with a simple command line: > > tex jadeoutput.tex the only flaw in this is speed. if there are a lot of macros involved, its much faster to have them preloaded in a format file. also, at present i rely on pulling in half a dozen existing LaTeX packages (danged if i am doing to incorporate all of eg hyperrer, color, graphics in each output file) > I'm not sure right now how I am supposed to relate my output to the > JadeTeX macros. 1. get jadetex macros 2. tex jadetex.ins %writes jadetex.ltx) 3. tex -ini \&latex jadetex.ltx '\dump' 4. tex \&jadetex foo.tex % where jade wrote foo.tex 5. dvips foo -o foo.ps or if you have pdftex 3. pdftex -ini \&pdflatex jadetex.ltx '\dump' 4. tex \&jadetex foo.tex % where jade wrote foo.tex 5. acroread foo.pdf > I admit that I haven't spent more than 20 minutes > researching it, so this is almost certainly an RTFM issue. Is there a > JadeTex for dummies page? sadly not :-} i freely admit that as of today you need to be a mild TeX weeny to get stuck into this. but only mild. > Anyhow, it would be nice if printing from SGML+DSSSL via TeX would be as > easy as via RTF. if you live in Unix, its considerably easier .... and if you want pdf, its faster and better than via RTF Sebastian DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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