On 9/3/2021 3:53 PM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Sep 2021, Thierry Horsin via ntg-context wrote:
>
>> Hi everybody
>>
>> Is there a way to have an automatic access to the current line number of a specific place inside a tex file ? To be more precise, here is what I would like to do.
>
> Also look at the filter module.
>
>      https://github.com/adityam/filter
>
> Behind the scenes, it works by saving the content in an external file and then
> running it through any external program. It also allows for caching the
> result, and has many options for customizing the behavior.
you forgot to mention that it also makes sure that you only process when
there has been a change (after all calling gcc comes at a price)

Hans

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