[XeTeX] Pipes in XeTeX
Will Robertson
wspr81 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 28 13:05:12 CEST 2010
On 2010-07-27 00:07:02 +0930, Florian Gilcher
<flo at andersground.net> said:
> I really like the following feature of pdftex and others for
> development purposes:
>
> \input{|"darcs changes -s"} % print a detailed log of changes
>
> and include that into my document as a "running log" for other reviewers.
>
> Sure, it requires --shell-escape and --enable-write18, but thats just
> fine in my environment.
Actually I think this is a MiKTeX-only feature of pdfTeX (or it was
last time I checked). Is there a significant problem to doing this?:
\immediate\write18{darcs changes -s > tmp.txt}
\input{tmp.txt}
Wrap it up in a macro and it's no less convenient than using the pipe, right?
Will
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