[tex-k] ipc and tex

[Nicolas Depauw]

Hello.
Where can i find precise informations about the -ipc and -ipc-start
options ?
Nicolas Depauw.

[Karl Berry]

Hi Nicolas,

Where can i find precise informations about the -ipc and -ipc-start
options ?

The source code. Sorry, but that's the reality. You are the first
person who has written anything about them in many years; writing a
bunch of documentation for an audience of zero people has never appealed.
(I'm also doubtful of the utility of the feature nowadays.)

best,
karl

[Tom Rokicki]

Right; if this is the same as the ipc functionality I put in nearly 30 years
ago, remember that this simply communicated information about completed
pages to a dvi previewer when machines were hundreds of times slower.

Almost certainly these days it is no longer interesting. Frankly I would
simply remove any documentation of these features completely. They
were a bandaid for when processing a file could take many minutes and
people wanted to preview parts of the dvi file as TeX was still running on
the remainder.

-tom

Post by Karl Berry
Hi Nicolas,
Where can i find precise informations about the -ipc and -ipc-start
options ?
The source code. Sorry, but that's the reality. You are the first
person who has written anything about them in many years; writing a
bunch of documentation for an audience of zero people has never appealed.
(I'm also doubtful of the utility of the feature nowadays.)
best,
karl

[Nicolas Depauw]

thank you very much for your quick responses.

In fact there is a situation where this is useful, even if not essential
: producing static html web pages with a lot of math chunks
each one rendered by small included-svg pieces, referring to the same
set of definitions for the paths of the glyphs.

I know that mathjax do that, but with dynamic javascript. As my pages
are static, I would prefer to avoid mathjax.

with respect,
Nicolas Depauw.