[Texmacs-dev] Re: noweb, pamphlets, and TeXmacs

[Joris van der Hoeven]

> Is TeXmacs scriptable? That is, can I run it from a Makefile
> silently during document generation?

Yes, but probably you do not want to run TeXmacs as a script,
but rather Scheme, since you just want to extract information from
the TeXmacs document (which can be saved as a scheme expression).
You might want to run TeXmacs as a script though if you want to use it as
a real typesetter. However, this feature has to be improved, because it is
not very clean yet.

> The way Axiom is structured
> you can build the whole of the system from the sources by typing
> "make". This currently includes the tangling for code generation
> and weaving for document generation. Porting tangle and weave to
> lisp would allow those operations to continue to be scripted. My
> question concerns other TeXmacs operations like URL tag following.