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[Corey Sweeney <address@hidden>]

Ok, it looks like i want something like:
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;;texmacs converter thing
(define-format html-with-header
  (:name "html with a extra header")
  (:must-recognize (lambda (x) (equal? (substring x 0 3) "Wik"))))

(converter html-with-header html
           (:shell "~/strip-header"))
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where "~/strip-header" is the program that does the translating.   

Then inside my texmacs document I should call it with:
<converter-input|html-with-header|<include|~/mangled-web-file>>

or maybe just <include|~/mangled-web-file>, if everythings automatic.


Now i'm fuzzy as to how i'm supposed to pass the data across.  (:shell
prog prefix-args from innfix-args to postfix-args)

Is "from" and "to" supposed to be the filenames that texmacs reads from?

like:

(:shell "~/strip-header" "temp.file.1" "temp.file.1.html")

but i'm guessing that *-args are texmacs arguments, as if they were to
the shell program, there wouldn't be 3 of them.

Or is the shell program supposed to read/write with standard
output/standard input?  That'd be really easy to write into the shell
app.

Corey






On 8/9/05, Bas Spitters <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Monday 08 August 2005 23:45, Corey Sweeney wrote:
> > another idea.... it just occured to me that sessions might be right
> > for this.  Here's the idea:
> >
> > Write a program that filters out the first 3 lines, then have a
> > session which calls the program and reports the output.  Something
> > like \session "filter3lines.exe {filename}". Then write a macro to
> > wrap it, so something like \include-filtered {filename}, then presents
> > it?
> >
> > I havn't worked in sessions yet.  Does anyone this this would work?
> 
> For instance, have a look at my recent post of a generic latex plugin at
> texmacs-dev. (and look at Joris' answer).
> 
> Bas
>