Hi, I have never tried but could not you use \write18 to run XeTeX from XeTeX? I am not sure whether it is supported.
Zdeněk Wagner http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz pá 3. 7. 2020 v 12:50 odesílatel Philip Taylor < p.tay...@hellenic-institute.uk> napsal: > I am frequently in the situation where I routinely need to run two > instances of XeTeX in immediate succession — the first to generate an > intermediate PDF file, the second to read that file as input, massage it, > and then output a second PDF file derived from the first. As much of my > work is data-driven, I normally "compile" the data file in TeXworks, with > the first TeX file nominated as the root file in the pragmats at the top of > the data file, as in : > > [File: Hoi-An TA Menu.xlsx.tex] > > % !TeX Program=XeTeX > > % !TeX Root=Hoi-An TA menu (separate pages).tex > > > As a second step, I then have to select a different TeX file ("Hoi-An TA > menu (combine pages).tex") as the current file and compile that. > > If XeTeX could be instructed to close its current PDF file and then create > a new one (obviously with a different-but-derived name), the entire task > could be accomplished with a single TeX file (plus data file) rather than > requiring two separate TeX files (plus data file) as at present. > > Would there be any support for a proposal to extend the PDF-generating > family of TeX-derived engines to support this feature ? > > *Philip Taylor* > >
