[TxMt] Re: Shell escape with Latex watch

[enas]

Hi all,

No-one answered, so I finally found out how to make it work (or make  
it seem to work).

I replaced the lines

fail_unless_system(@tex, ...

by

fail_unless_system(@tex, $prefs{options},

and it seems to take into account correctly my options set in the  
latex preferences.

Now whether that's the correct thing to do, the right thing to do or  
what, I have no idea.

Also, that reminds of a previous post that remained unanswered as  
well, concerning the synctex support. I tried to activate that as  
well, but it's not as easy, as the files created (the .synctex.gz)  
start by a "." and thus do not correspond the final pdf file name.

Any idea about these two points? Is there any LaTeX bundle maintainer  
around?

Thank you all,

enas

On 2 Oct 2008, at 13:56, enas wrote:

> OK, so I checked a bit the code of latex_watch.pl.
>
> The function get_prefs returns indeed the options in the latex
> preferences (it returns the engine, the options and the viewer), but
> then the options fields is completely discarded (only the engine and
> the viewer are taken into account).
>
> So my question can be reformulated, I guess, to: is it possible to
> adapt the script so that it takes into account the options given in
> the latex preferences, and passes them to the engine?
>
> Thanks,
>
> enas
>
> On 1 Oct 2008, at 15:43, enas wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Jan,
>>
>> Sure, but that option doesn't seem to affect the "Watch document"
>> command.
>>
>> I can specifically create a document that uses a \write18{echo "Bla "
>>> file.txt} command that works when compiled ("Typeset & View (PDF)"
>> command) but do not when using the "Watch document" command.
>>
>> In the case I use Typeset & View, with the -shell-escape option
>> specified, I get in the .log file an entry showing:
>>
>> system(echo "Bla " > file.txt)...executed.
>>
>> (and the file is indeed created), while if I use the Watch document
>> version, the log shows
>>
>> system(echo "Bla " > file.txt)...disabled.
>>
>> So, obviously, Watch document doesn't use the shell-escape option,
>> regardless of the option set in the LaTeX bundle preferences.
>>
>> So my question remains, how to activate it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> enas
>>
>> On 1 Oct 2008, at 15:13, Jan Michael wrote:
>>
>>> Hi enas,
>>>
>>> maybe you just have to update to the latest version of the latex
>>> bundle. Then open a *.tex file and press [Command]+[Option]+[Comma]
>>> for the bundle options, where you can set pdftex options (shown in
>>> the screenshot http://skitch.com/janmichael/ap9p/latex-preferences)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> 	Jan.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01.10.2008, at 16:06, enas wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> How can you add options to the call to the pdflatex engine used by
>>>> the
>>>> watch functionality of the LaTeX bundle?
>>>>
>>>> Particularly, I'd like to be able to add the shell-escape option
>>>> (apparently it currently runs with that option disabled).
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> enas
>>>>
>>>>
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