[Scons-dev] Built-in support for ConTeXt

[Managan, Rob]

I agree that it should not be too hard. I have not considered it since I don't have a local copy of context installed. Does it require LuaTeX or is that just the preferred way to run it??

We can take this off line and figure out how to get it working.

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On 3/21/14 5:27 PM, "Maggyero" <maggyero at gmail.com<mailto:maggyero at gmail.com>> wrote:

Dear developpers,


Thank you for SCons, it is really a wonderful tool.

Could you add a built-in support for ConTeXt? Since there is already a support for Plain TeX and LaTeX, only ConTeXt flavour is missing. ConTeXt format and its native engine LuaTeX (same developpers: Hans Hagen and Taco Hoekwater) are becoming very popular so the format should definitely be supported by SCons. I have looked a little bit into SCons' sources and I think it just requires a few extra lines according to the the way (PDF)TeX and (PDF)LaTeX tools and scanners are implemented (the (PDF)ConTeXt scanner only has to query for \usemodule instead of \usepackage and the produced extra file extensions are [.log, .tuc] instead of [.aux, .fls, .lof, .log, .lot, .out, .tex, .toc]).

And if it is already planned, what would be the release date, at least approximately?


Best regards.


Maggyero
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