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reitzig / ltx2any

Yet another LaTeX build wrapper, with one or two nifty features
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Clean up TikZ externalisation extension #24

Closed akerbos closed 11 years ago

akerbos commented 11 years ago

The extension is currently a "black box" that does its work -- if everything works.

Maybe it would make sense to use a "recursive" call to ltx2any for externalisation? Note that that would need some additional work since not all necessary options can be passed to the engine used (cf #25).

Furthermore, investigate whether it is necessary/useful to use the engine of the main run here (currently pdflatex is always used). What happens if the target format is not PDF? Do we need an alternative to compile to, say, SVG?

akerbos commented 11 years ago

Closing for now. Controlling extensions more closely is addressed separately in issue #25. Engines other than *LaTeX probably don't even support TikZ let alone externalization so we don't need to fuss about that right now.