Re: How to translate LaTeX into UTF-8 in Elisp?

[Udyant Wig]

This is an interesting point, which I think is worth some thought.

On 07/04/2017 11:27 AM, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> (I'd prefer Emacs to do the job, not an external utility).

Would you say this ought to hold in general?  For instance, both find(1)
and grep(1) are external to Emacs, but have such good integration with
it that they may as well be native to it.  So also the package Magit
which makes git(1) seem largely part of Emacs.

However, I can see cases where your point is apt.  If, say, one wanted
to factor numbers, a workable (but horrifying(?))  solution is to call
factor(1) in a subprocess and hand-hack the output.

I think that as long as the layer between the given tool outside and
Emacs is good, it may not matter that the work is obtained from an
outsider.

But what do you think?

Udyant Wig
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