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Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 01:31:52 +1100
To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org
From: Peter Donald <donaldp@apache.org>
Subject: Re: Ant and LaTeX
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At 07:25  3/11/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>
>I like using ANT and as I use also LaTeX in our projects, I hacked a
>small LaTeX-Target together. It works for easy things and is my first
>attempt to write an extension to ANT. You can download it at 
>
>  http://ls10-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~alfert/ant-extension/
>
>It runs (and is tested) with ANT 1.2, Java 1.3.0 and teTeX 1.0 on
>Linux. I assume that there is currently a dependency on Java 1.3.0 as
>I have a an exec call in java.lang.Runtime which does not exist in
>1.2.2. The next step in my plan is to understand the various
>Exec-Classes in org.apache.ant.taskdefs to make anttex at least
>independent from the JVM version. So, I'm interested in any feedback,
>suggestions for a better code structures, other features, etc. 

kewl ;)

This would have been useful a couple of weeks ago when I was writing my
thesis ;) Oh well. It needs to be able to run on a 1.1 vm if you want it to
be chucked into CVS.

Cheers,

Pete

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