[Haskell-cafe] More accessible papers

Peter Verswyvelen bf3 at telenet.be
Wed Nov 21 06:10:38 EST 2007


Jeremy Shaw wrote:
> I would be especially neat if there was some way to embed the .tex
> source in the .pdf, so that you could later extract the source from
> the .pdf and rebuild it. This is probably not officially supported by
> .pdf, but I bet it can be done. Perhaps by creating a hidden section
> and a bit of javascript. Ideally you would just add:
>
> \usepackage{embedsource} 
>
> into your .tex and it would automatically do it for you.
>
>   
Yes, but why don't researchers just publish their TEX file? You can 
regard that as the "source code" for generating PDF/PS whatever no?

Peter




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