HTTP support for TeX? was: Re: [tex-live] Re: schedule for tl2004

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Mon May 10 13:45:37 CEST 2004



Stefan Ulrich wrote:
>>any chance on \input http://someplace.somewhere.org/test.tex
> 
> 
>>being supported (currently only on windows)
> 
> 
> Are many people actually using this feature?

the usage to me would be

  \includegraphics{http://www.foo.bar/images/logo.png}

which is something one does often on web pages. since I
write my web pages in XML, which I translates to TeX to get 
PDF versions of, working round this is a pain.
-- 
Sebastian Rahtz      Information Manager
Oxford University Computing Services
13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431



More information about the tex-live mailing list