Re: Convert the svg files to pdf/eps for a project automatically.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 2:11 AM Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Currently, the latexmk can't automatically convert graphics formats
> > for files located under the subfolders of a project due to the
> > graphics package limitation of not logging the path info into the log
> > file.
> >
> > So, I want to write a function to convert the graphic formats, say,
> > from svg to pdf/eps for files automatically, if necessary. Especially
> > when they are located under a project's subfolders.
>
> I'm not sure if AUCTeX needs this feature.  There is a LaTeX package
> called svg[1] which exactly does this job.  I think we need a style to
> support this package.

Do you mean something like the files located at
<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/auctex.git/tree/style>?

> Do you want to give a try and write svg.el and add it to AUCTeX?
>
> Best, Arash
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  https://ctan.org/pkg/svg



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