[SVN] LaTeX notes, r720

[Allan Odgaard]

On Apr 25, 2005, at 20:00, Robert Ullrey wrote:

>> 2. The new localhost workaround for PDFLaTeX seems to require Apache 
>> to be running. I don't have an issue with that personally, but I 
>> wonder about its suitability for broader use.

Not really -- I'll look into making the web kit read file:// again 
(after Apple apparently disabled it).

> I wonder if using a Ruby on Rails server or even a little python 
> server would provide to support needed.

That's a terrific idea! I think for both Perl and Ruby, the web-server 
is an add-on not included with OS X out-of-the-box. But Python actually 
does come with an HTTPServer class that can handle the job in a few 
dozen lines. Although currently I'm not sure how I can shut down the 
server after it has completed the job.

However, getting file:// to work again would be best, because there are 
also other commands that need it, like when using the HTML output as a 
documentation browser. In worst case I can always just extend the 
txmt://-scheme to be responsible for the redirect to file://.