[texworks] Using Lua Extension - to get LaTeX package help
Paul A Norman
paul.a.norman at gmail.com
Sun Sep 20 02:36:57 CEST 2009
Dear Reinhard,
Thank you for that backgrounder.
The hard work is being done by others, Jonathan, Stefan, Alain and others I
can not identify yet.
I am in the priviledged position of doing something very simple here,
applying a small piece of simplistic knowledge -- while myself riding on the
shoulders of giants!
Something very very simple, that produces a successful result ONLY because
of the HARD work of the others!
Paul
2009/9/20 Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>
> On 19 September 2009 Paul A Norman wrote:
>
> > Dear Stefan,
> >
> > Thank you for that, it sparked something in my memory, and yes
> > texdoc works under MiTeX on Windows as well.
>
> texdoc only depends on LuaTeX's Lua engine and should work on all
> systems which provide LuaTeX.
>
> > My security fears are irrelevent I think unless "texdoc" is removed
> > from the os.execute command string.
>
> That's true.
>
> > I don't think package names are allowed to have spaces in them, is that
> > right does any one know?
>
> This is a good question. There are no packages with spaces in their
> name on CTAN yet and I assume that there will be none in the near
> future. However, it's poor software design if spaces in file names
> are not supported. Even more important are spaces in directory names
> because they can't always be avoided.
>
> > Using texdoc may work on all/most distributions perhaps?
>
> Hopefully! It's written in texlua for this reason.
>
> Paul, thank you very much for your work. We (Jonathan, Manuel, and
> me) briefly discussed this feature at the TUG conference in Cork
> already, but TeXworks lacked a scripting engine at this time. It's
> very nice to see that a texdoc interface became re ality. I'm deeply
> grateful because this is a great feature and not only newcomers
> benefit from it.
>
> Another thing we discussed was to make Robin's FAQ accessible directly
> from TeXworks. Jonathan prefers the HTML version of the FAQ because
> QT supports HTML already and for a few other reasons. I don't know
> how much effort is necessary in order to make the QT HMTL interface
> accessible to Lua. I also fear that it's necessary to "steal" some
> code from LuaTeX. What I have in mind is the kpathsea interface.
>
> Stefan, you are my hero anyway. A scripting language allows people to
> contribute easily without worrying about system quirks. Paul already
> proved that this statement is correct. No need to compile TeXworks
> again in order to add a new feature. I'm very glad that you provided
> a scripting engine. Thank you very much!
>
> Regards,
> Reinhard
>
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