[texhax] Execute other Program, or parse....

[Tom Schneider]

Christopher:

> I've been working with LaTeX for a while and had an idea I wanted to
> work on. I implemented the basic algorithom in C++. Now I'd like to
> make package. I've been reading through documentation on the
> `programming' aspects of TeX and LaTeX, but can't find out how to
> either  execute another program (Preferable solution) or parse a
> command's input (eg, access newcommand's #1 in individual characters).
> 
> If anyone could tell me how to do either, I would be very greatful.

There was a recent discussion on the use of write18 that did a pwd.

http://www.tug.org/pipermail/texhax/2008-October/011144.html

and another one I found by google:

http://www.tug.org/pipermail/texhax/2005-November/005085.html

That's pretty powerful!

Tom

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