[Cjk] CJKTeX and LateX files extensions

[Janusz S. Bień]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002  Werner LEMBERG <wl at gnu.org> wrote:

> > First, I think (and I going to argue also with other authors of
> > various preprocessors) that the *.tex extension should be reserved for
> > files processed by {La,pdf}TeX.
> 
> And plain TeX itself.  Even here start the problems.
> 
> > In consequence, files requiring some preprocessor should have a
> > distinct extensions.
> 
> Hmm, troff files need *a lot* of preprocessors usually, and nobody
> puts them into the extension, e.g. `foo.eqn-pic-tbl' or something like
> that isn't used.  Instead, groff has added a small script called grog
> which scans the file to find out the necessary preprocessors together
> with the used macro package.  Something similar would be a nice thing
> for AucTeX also.

It is not clear for me how difficult would be to implement it in a
multiplatform way.

> 
> I'm not convinced yet but I don't object if someone wants to implement
> automatic recognition of a special extension reserved for cjk-enc.

I am very glad.


On 08 Dec 2002  jsbien at mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bień) wrote:

[...]

> BTW, is anybody using *.ltx extension for LaTeX files? I was
> accustomed to this convention in my DOS days, but using it with AUCTeX
> caused some problems (I don't remember the details now).

AUCTeX seems to insist on adding `.tex' after `.ltx' or any other extension.

When this problem is solved, extending it to CJKTeX will be trivial.

Anybody willing to help?

Best regards

Janusz

P.S. At this stage it seems sufficient to follow up this thread on
auc-tex list only.

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dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW
Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity
http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
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