Hello,
I'm new to TextMate so please forgive my ignorance. My question is: is it possible to, or would it be possible to make, TextMate work well with xdvi? Even though part of the world is trending toward using PDF to display on the Mac, e.g. with Skim, there are still some advantages to xdvi, in particular that the display and updating are very fast, and it is much faster to latex a long document than to pdflatex it.
There are two things that would be needed.
1. When using latex as the engine, it seems that TextMate also invokes dvips to create a PDF file. This should be turned off. (Perhaps there is already an option for this?) Also, one would need to invoke latex with src-specials turned on (latex -src-specials).
2. One would like to be able to synchronize from TextMate to xdvi. This can be done with a command like: xdvi -sourceposition lineno$texfile $dvifile for example xdvi -sourceposition 50myfile.tex mymasterfile.dvi
Syncing from xdvi to TextMate is already relatively easy.
I'm guessing all this may be easy for those who are familiar with bundle editing (not me!), or even perhaps has been done already?
Thanks Geoff Vallis