Paul McCann paul.mccann@adelaide.edu.au wrote:

Gack: I don't think you want to be grabbing latex just to get some printing functionality in place! If you're interested in producing beautiful technical documents on the other hand...

For beautiful technical documents, including equations, plots, etc., I do use a full latex program - it would never occur to me to use a text editor for that. What I do expect from a text editor is to be able to write and print out a letter, for example, containing pure ASCII, that I can mail off. Yes, occasionally snail-mail is still appropriate :).

The link mentioned earlier in this thread *is* out of date: the "Typeset and View (PDF)" command in the latex bundle almost certainly isn't what was being referred to: it is --unsurprisingly-- only useful on a latex source file. I do have a recollection of some printing scripts being developed using "enscript", a formatting utility that comes with OS X. Here's one that lingers in my bundle, and occasionally proves useful. Make a new command with... ======================================================================= Save: Current File Command(s): #!/bin/bash # close stderr exec 2<&- # set options here enscript_opt="-2Gr --line-numbers -o -" tempfile="/tmp/texmate-print.$$.pdf" # note: "$$" is the current pid pstopdf_opt="-i -o $tempfile" # create the pdf and open it enscript $enscript_opt | pstopdf $pstopdf_opt open $tempfile rm $tempfile

Input: Entire Document Output: Discard =======================================================================

You'll probably want to play with the enscript options to get the output to your liking, but it's very malleable.

Thanks for this command script, Paul. I've not tried making any commands yet, but this is a chance to learn how.

- Dushan