[latexrefman] Some packages need to run external system commands.
Vincent Belaïche
vincent.belaiche at gmail.com
Thu Apr 16 12:29:42 CEST 2020
Read in node «\write18».
I find the wording awkward, because what is meant --- IMHO --- is
external wrt LaTeX. But in the context of an OS shell the word
«external» has another meaning, an external command is a command that
is implemented through a program file that you have somewhere on a
harddrive in a directory in the PATH. «external» word is used by
contrast to shell functions and shell builtins.
I propose to fix this by just removing word «external».
Is everybody OK with that ?
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