Re: [Axiom-developer] build-improvements and latex

[Jay Belanger]

root <address@hidden> writes:
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> yes. i'm learning a lot about the tex language so it's taking time.
> latex does similiar processing to handle bibligraphic and index files.

For LaTeX, isn't an external program usually called to format the
index files?

> if latex can do code chunks directly, format them properly in
> a latex document and dump the code to a file there is no need
> for any other tool.

That sounds like a pretty neat idea.  But wouldn't using TeX to do the
tangling be inefficient for large programs?  (This isn't a rhetorical
question; I have no idea.)

Jay