On 01/07/2015 19:39, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: >> >> We can happily generate that file using pdfTeX (\pdfmdfivesum primitive) >> or LuaTeX (using Lua code), but not using XeTeX. That's not a big issue >> but the need for an MD5 sum gives me an idea which would need support in >> XeTeX. >> > > The (Xe)TeX language has been designed not for system programming and I > wonder why > people would like to make it a system's programming language. A better idea > would be to > use Perl or Python or even Ruby, which are widely available.
TeX systems are essentially self-contained: on a Windows system with TeX Live or MiKTeX installed one can nowadays assume Lua as well as TeX but nothing else. Moreover, I'm thinking specifically of a use case linked to the process of document preparation itself. -- Joseph Wright -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
