Re: [Axiom-developer] build-improvements and latex

[Ralf Hemmecke]

> I think the only convincing reason that Ralf gave for his
> convention for noweave was interaction with point-and-click
> in dvi. But this could be achieved through a different
> patch to srcltx. No?

But I guess that patch would be a bit longer. In the patch I gave, I use 
the fact that address@hidden (which is defined as address@hidden) 
automatically adds the .tex extension.

I didn't want to change srcltx.sty too much and when I stumbled over 
that file.sty/file.sty.tex problem, I decided for file.sty.nw.tex (just 
adding the .tex extension) in ALLPROSE. In that way I made the patch 
short and I avoided another problem. And my rule is simple.

It is even a bit more complicated. My patch basically gets the clicks 
right, if the file contains \input of other files. It does not work with 
the master file. So if one translates file.pamphlet to file.tex even 
with my patch one doesn't get point&click. (Or rather the click will 
lead to the .tex file and not to the .pamphlet.) For that to work 
correctly, it would need yet another patch. I haven't investigated it 
since in ALLPROSE I automatically generate a wrapper that includes the 
generated latex files (plural!).

What speaks so much against just adding .tex?
Portability? Look at the output of

cd build-improvements
find . -name '*.*.pamphlet'

Is there a plan to rename them all?

Ralf