rgheck wrote: > I've thought about this problem, too, and your suggestion makes some > sense. Another option would be to create "dummy" formats, which would be > pretty much like the ones we have now, but would not be visible to the > user. So the thought would be, we'd have a single format pdf, and > "subformats" pdf-1, pdf-2, etc, for each of the ways there are to get > pdf output. These would be tied to converters, as in your proposal, and > I suppose they could even be named things like "pdf-pdflatex". > > The only advantage I can see to this is that it might help with chains > longer than a single converter.
And it will make the implementation of \converter_alternatives harder. Jürgen
