support for catchfilebetweentags

[Uwe Brauer]

Hi


Since quite some time I have changed from include to subfiles, and use
input only very occasionally mostly because it does not offer the
possibility only to include parts of a certain file.

Just now I learned about catchfilebetweentags which offers this feature.
So, if you want run a spell checker or some other type of test it is
clearly more convenient to do this for one file and not for a dozen.

Here is the workflow: you have two files, for example

    1) main.tex

    2) external-fixme.tex

You insert a bit of text by 

\ExecuteMetaData[external-fixmes.tex]{2}

Or (I am using here todonotes, where this approach is very useful)
\todo{\ExecuteMetaData[external-fixmes.tex]{1}}

{1} denotes the tag and [external-fixmes.tex] the external file, obviously.

This file then has the following structure 

%<*1>
First fixme:
\begin{equation*}
  \int f dx
\end{equation*}
%</1>


%<*2>
Second  fixme:
%</2>

I attach both files for convenience. 

Now the question is how could auctex support this package. I think

    1) to support the generation of a tag skeleton (unfortunately one
    cannot use simply an environment since there is no begin and end).
    It would be great if a tag could be inserted automatically but again
    it is not a simple latex label. 
    2) to support the insertion of
    \ExecuteMetaData[external-fixmes.tex]{2}, in similar way reftex
    supports the insertion labels of an external document via the
    externaldocument package 

Anybody has an idea how to achieve that?

regards

Uwe Brauer 

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