[TxMt] Typeset & View (PDF)

[Alain Matthes]

Le 3 avr. 07 à 04:54, Charilaos Skiadas a écrit :

> On Apr 2, 2007, at 2:33 PM, Alain Matthes wrote:
>
>> Hello:)
>>
>> First I do not understand the changes in this script.
>>
>> Certain users prefer to work with latex but without pstricks, why  
>> not make two different  scripts.
>
> Sorry, I don't really follow you here. Can't you just tell TM to  
> use latex instead? The %!TEX-program directive should work just  
> like in TeXShop.
>

Hello  haris, it's difficult to explain because  my english is poor  
and i'm a very newbie with the shell script, perhaps I don't  
understand the script.

first  I work with Texshop only if  i want to test a tex file with  
dvi + ps because
  with the mac there are a lot of possiblities :

i try to be clear :

1) latex (dvi + ps) problem

a) it's not necessary to use pstricks. A lot of linux users prefer  
latex  ( dvi + ps)
    because ...they can use "special" command  with PS. And when a  
linux user work with the mac, often, he works with tex + ghoscript !

b) dvi2ps is not an obligation, with the mac you can prefer dvitops  
the apple distiller ( with texhop in the pref, you can choose the  
distiller apple or ghoscript)
The apple distiller is not very good but it exists.

c) perhaps i don't understand the script but you can use a latex  
class or a package who calls pstricks. I'm not sure that's the script  
detects that ...

d) I work only with pdflatex but i make packages and classes so i  
need to test my work
  with pdflatex with the two ways : pdf directly ( the good way for  
me) and dvi + ps.

e) it's more elegant to work with only one script but in this case  
perhaps it's more easy to define a shell variable : TM_LATEX_Option :  
DVI with PDF by default.


2) modify the script ...

  with the old script, i made a special variant of the script  call  
"preview"

often i make piece of tex code and i want to compile this piece  
without complete the file

example : i want to have a look at the result of :

\begin{enumerate}\setlength{\itemsep}{15pt}
\item aaa
\item  bb
\item  cc
\end{enumerate}

so in the script i've

# DIR=`dirname "$M"`
# FILE=`basename "$M"`

DIR="/Users/ego/Boulot/temp"
FILE="temptex.tex"

and after that

cd ${TM_DIR_FOR_TEMP}
cat >temptex.tex<<EOF
\documentclass[$MY_OPT]{$MY_CLASS}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\input $M
\end{document}
EOF

i have some difficulties to insert that with the new script. I'm a  
really newbie

i make this but it's  very brutal :

run_tex () {
"$TEX" ${TM_LATEX_OPTIONS:=--shell-escape -interaction=nonstopmode - 
file-line-error-style} "$1"
}

# Compile.
run_tex "$FILE"

open -a "$V" temptex.pdf
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Greetings Alain Matthes [ www.altermundus.fr ]

PS :  I work on the different lists of macro for the completion and  
my work will be finish in some days . If you a special class for the  
surveys with QCM, i can make it...