[Cjk] Re: CJKTeX, Debian and other matters

[David Kastrup]

Werner LEMBERG <wl at gnu.org> writes:

> > [...] I would prefer to slightly improve them by allowing automatic
> > recognition of CJKLaTeX source. My suggestion is that switching
> > TeX-command-default to CJKLaTeX should be triggered by an
> > appropriate extension (*.cjk or *.kjc or similar).
> 
> This won't work.  Files with extension `.cjk' are intermediate files
> only, not intended to be edited at all.  What I suggest is to add a
> command to the AUCTeX interface which automatically inserts
> 
>   %%% TeX-command-default: "CJKLaTeX"
> 
> together with a proper `Coding' entry.  The `TeX-command-default' must
> *always* be present, at least for multi-file documents.

In my opinion, we have a proliferation of tools and Emacs packages
that is unhealthy: too many of them clash or interfere and do the same
job, actually.  It appears to me like the job of reencoding could well
be done with X-Symbol.  Now X-Symbol's default mode of operation would
imply editing texts that are saved externally in TeX encoding.  If
that is unfeasible for external manipulation of texts, I would think
that it would be a reasonably simple extension to let X-Symbol save
the reencoded stuff to a separate shadow file while the original file
contents get saved to the source file unchanged.

Am I being insane here?

Copying Christoph Wedler, the author of X-Symbol
<URL:http://x-symbol.sourceforge.net>.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum