[tex-live] TexLive on a Live CD

[David Kastrup]

Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> writes:

> 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?

Which makes it desirable to increase that ratio by making it easier to
do so.

> 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 :-}

Well, depending on one's point of view that would be an XML CD or a
PostScript CD, as TeX/LaTeX is only an intermediate format in that
scenario.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum