Re: GLOBAL_COMMANDS needed for some customization (tex4ht for instance)

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 06:57:27PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 01:38:03PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > GLOBAL_COMMANDS is needed for tp/init/tex4ht.pm and tp/init/latex2html.pm
> > to specify that these config files need the @math and @tex @-commands
> > added to the @-commands informations put in the parser 'extra' field.
> > However, GLOBAL_COMMANDS was removed in commit 
> > 828a4add2fea759fa26872f4d9efff84becd7964.
> > 
> > Any idea on what should be done there?
> > 
> 
> I'd missed those files when I removed this variable.
> 
> I think the easiest thing to do would be to have these commands present 
> in GLOBAL_COMMANDS all the time.  That would be easy to implement in 
> Perl and in the XS modules and no extra code would be needed to pass an 
> array configuration value to the XS code.

The problem here is that we cannot know in advance which @-commands the
user would like to have recorded.

-- 
Pat