[TxMt] LaTeX Bundle question

[Geoff Vallis]

Replying to Brad and Niels in one go:


On Feb 6, 2008, at 4:13 PM, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
>
> The "Show in PDF Viewer"-command says "texMate.py sync 1" (you can see
> that in the Bundle Editor)
> and locate tells me that texMate.py is located in
> "/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles/ 
> Latex.tmbundle/Support/bin/texMate.py"
>
> and a search in TextMate in that file says that the stuff you are
> searching for starts propably at line 109…

On Feb 6, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Brad Miller wrote:
>
>> Brad,
>>
>> That's too bad if so, and seems a bit odd, to me at least. After  
>> all, an applescript can call a shell script, which could be used to  
>> call xdvi, presuming that the parameters like line number and file  
>> name could be passed on to the shell script. And I thought that  
>> Textmate could in any case invoke shell commands directly, which is  
>> all one would need along with the file name and line number.
>>
>> I am presumably missing something!
>>
>
> You are probably right.  I didn't think about it very carefully, and  
> I don't really know anything about xdvi anymore as I've been very  
> happily using pdf for several years now.
>
> I would presume that if it can all be done in a shell script then  
> using the TM_ variables would give you enough info to put together a  
> script.  In fact this script could simply be the body of a TextMate  
> bundle command.
>
> Brad



Thanks to both of you. Looking at texMate.py, it seems that in order  
to forward sync, TextMate calls the scripts that are provided by the  
PDF viewers, such as forward-search.sh in TeXniscope. On the face of  
it, it seems that one might be able to substitute a call to xdvi for  
one of these scripts, as the functionality and calling parameters are  
very similar. I guess I'll give it a shot -- unless someone who  
actually knows what they are doing wants to do it? I suspect it is a  
piece of cake in that case, and I'd be happy to provide any knowledge  
of xdvi that might be needed. (Unfortunately, I barely know what a  
'bundle' is...)

Geoff