Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> this give us so many options.
>
> I think about something like,
>
> We can create a zip archive of a current project with a file ending
> like cdx (ConTeXt Document Excange) and can now process this file by
> calling texexec only on this file.
>
> Nothing special at this moment for now but it is easier send only one
> files to someone else instead of a many files or many files in a zip
> file he has to unzip first and call texexec later on the main file.
>
> What I want is to create a document in one directory with the normal
> structure with projects, components, a figure directory etc. and zip
> this directory to only one file. I can now process file simply by
> calling texexec on the directory and it is unzipped on the fly
> (unnoticed by the user) and I have no longer many different files in my
> directory and it is easier to send a docuemnt to someone else because
> he get from me only the zipped project file.
>
> I know this is nearly the same as a openoffice document (also a zip
> archive with many files) but why not.
sounds interesting
it's no big problem to implement this, but it makes most sense to stick
to luatex for this because it has zip support built in, so there is no
need to unzip then. things like the output, style etc can be controller
using a ctx file but currently that file is handled outside the tex run
for luatex, in the near future we will no longer use texexec but a lua
based variant (this removes the dependency on ruby) (i have a prototype
plugin for mtxrun for that; all support script will use mtxrun as stub)
let's come back to it later this year when we have a more stable luatex
Hans
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