[tex-live] TexLive on a Live CD

[Sebastian Rahtz]

David Kastrup wrote:

>a) all of the dtx documentation files could be compiled with Source
>   Specials (to DVI, obviously, instead of PDF) and the respective
>   line number information for \DescribeMacro and similar extracted
>   into separate files, so that Emacs could fire up the respective
>   definitions in either the DVI or dtx when asked to.  Potentially
>   useful for source2e, too.  One should also be able to use Source
>   Specials for jumping back and forth between DVI and .dtx file.
>  
>
let's be honest. how many people are capable of
intelligently browsing dtx files?

my own idea of a live CD is one in which the user writes and reads
in XML, and TeX sits in the background as a formatting
engine when needed :-}

Sebastian