At 8:16 AM -0600 1/9/06, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
On Jan 9, 2006, at 3:59 AM, Marco Kuhlmann wrote:
No, tidy does not really do what I want to achieve here. I also must admit that the LaTeX bundle's authors' idea of tidyness does not really match mine ... ;-)
I think Eric Hsu is responsible for the perl script used, and he seems to have it pretty well documented. It resides in Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/Latex.tmbundle/Support/bin so you could try to toggle it to suit your purposes, it does a lot of stuff that most some people might not like I guess. He is in the mailing list I think, so he might add his input when he gets a chance. I personally have never used the script.
Hi. The tidy script is pretty simple and (as I recall) was a hack to tab indent to allow intelligent folding of LaTeX documents. I wrote it in 2004 so it's fuzzy in my mind. Everyone is welcome to improve it.
Reformat Paragraph is really close to what I want, and in fact would be exactly what I want, if a paragraph would indeed be a logical LaTeX paragraph (rather than a textual paragraph) for Textmate.
I don't understand what that means, but I'm not a LaTeX geek. Does that mean that you want a command to remove all line breaks and insert breaks before logical separators, like \item and \section, etc.? How far away is LaTeX Tidy, assuming it could work on a selection?
So do I get you right that it is not possible for a language definition to specify what it counts as a paragraph?
That is correct, to the best of my knowledge. You could ask it as a feature request, though it will probably have to wait until 2.0 at least.
It seems like it would be a straightforward command to write. I would think the fastest thing to do would be to write a little command that inserts line breaks before all the things you don't want broken and then run a macro to Reformat Paragraph and then run your little command.
The insert line break command would be something like (off the cuff)
perl -pe "s/(\item|\section|\subsection)/\n$1/g"
Good luck. If you can't do it, perhaps someone else on the list with some time, or wanting to practice writing a simple TM command could do it... My wonderful 7-month old daughter has reduced my programming productivity...
best, Eric
ps. The LaTeX bundle has changed a lot (in cool ways) since I last worked on it. However, I don't get why there is no built-in way to wrap text in [ ] or ( ), since this is by far the most common move I make. Does anyone have objections to me adding such commands? If so, what is the recommended way of doing this with the existing bundle?