dear all,
i'd like to pose a few basic questions when using textmate for latex files:
(1) is there a way to get the 'typeset & view window' display the log file, the way you can have it with emacs? it seems that changing the values of TM_LATEX_ERRLVL doesn't help ...
(2) is there a way to get textmate use a dvi-previewer? (for reasons of speed, i still prefer dvi when working on my files).
(3) is it possible to change the fonts (i.e. same font as in in the editing window) and the header of the 'typeset & view window'? what's the place to do it?
thank you!
greetings, christoph eyrich
On Feb 24, 2007, at 3:06 PM, Christoph Eyrich wrote:
dear all,
i'd like to pose a few basic questions when using textmate for latex files:
(1) is there a way to get the 'typeset & view window' display the log file, the way you can have it with emacs? it seems that changing the values of TM_LATEX_ERRLVL doesn't help ...
You'll probably have to manually change the typeset command. Right now it does a parsing of the log file (well, the output to be exact). You really want to see the entire log file, or just some particular parts of it that are currently not showing up?
(2) is there a way to get textmate use a dvi-previewer? (for reasons of speed, i still prefer dvi when working on my files).
You'll again probably have to modify the typeset command (perhaps just create one of your own from scratch, that meets your needs). Basically you would just use the "open" command, and then if you provide it with a "dvi" file it would open with whatever default app handles those files in your system (or you could specify it via "open -a" I think. Which dvi-previewer did you have in mind?
(3) is it possible to change the fonts (i.e. same font as in in the editing window) and the header of the 'typeset & view window'? what's the place to do it?
Hm, I believe we were thinking of allowing more customization of the output window. This window is used across many commands and languages, and there is a common css file for it. I think Soryu knows more about this though.
thank you!
greetings, christoph eyrich
Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College
On Feb 25, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
On Feb 24, 2007, at 3:06 PM, Christoph Eyrich wrote:
dear all,
Let me correct myself a bit,
i'd like to pose a few basic questions when using textmate for latex files:
(1) is there a way to get the 'typeset & view window' display the log file, the way you can have it with emacs? it seems that changing the values of TM_LATEX_ERRLVL doesn't help ...
You'll probably have to manually change the typeset command. Right now it does a parsing of the log file (well, the output to be exact). You really want to see the entire log file, or just some particular parts of it that are currently not showing up?
We might be able to add that in some way, again the question is: Do you really want the entire log file, or are you just missing some information in the things that the log file filter shows you atm? We could probably alter the behavior of TM_LATEX_ERRLVL and the log file filter, if we can figure out what the meaningful levels of filtering are.
(2) is there a way to get textmate use a dvi-previewer? (for reasons of speed, i still prefer dvi when working on my files).
You'll again probably have to modify the typeset command (perhaps just create one of your own from scratch, that meets your needs). Basically you would just use the "open" command, and then if you provide it with a "dvi" file it would open with whatever default app handles those files in your system (or you could specify it via "open -a" I think. Which dvi-previewer did you have in mind?
After some thought, we should be able to do that. We are already doing 10 tests or so in that script, one more wouldn't hurt. It would require altering the program used for compiling as well, but it is theoretically doable. The question is really what dvi previewers are there out there on the mac, and how would one call them on a particular file?
greetings, christoph eyrich
Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College
Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College
On Feb 26, 2007, at 5:39 AM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
We might be able to add that in some way, again the question is: Do you really want the entire log file, or are you just missing some information in the things that the log file filter shows you atm?
i'd like to see the log file as we get it it when we start a run on the command line. i realize that it's hardly vital but it is nice to see which packages get loaded, at which point of the document the machine is in a given moment etc. (the latter especially if you are working on the final version of projects with several hundred pages).
We could probably alter the behavior of TM_LATEX_ERRLVL and the log file filter, if we can figure out what the meaningful levels of filtering are.
it seems to me that 'no filtering', just the entire file as written bei latex, as an option would be nice. i just noticed that changing
run_tex "$FILE" 2>&1 | latexErrWarnHtml.py -v to run_tex "$FILE" 2>&1
seems to do the trick except that the window closes as soon as we are done. could it stay open?
(2) is there a way to get textmate use a dvi-previewer? (for reasons of speed, i still prefer dvi when working on my files).
You'll again probably have to modify the typeset command (perhaps just create one of your own from scratch, that meets your needs). Basically you would just use the "open" command, and then if you provide it with a "dvi" file it would open with whatever default app handles those files in your system (or you could specify it via "open -a" I think. Which dvi-previewer did you have in mind?
After some thought, we should be able to do that. We are already doing 10 tests or so in that script, one more wouldn't hurt. It would require altering the program used for compiling as well, but it is theoretically doable. The question is really what dvi previewers are there out there on the mac, and how would one call them on a particular file?
that's a bit of a problem :-) i had a look at tom kiffe's macdvi but at the moment i use xdvi, that is, i got to start apple's x-server beforehand. it looks ugly, it doesn't refresh, that is, you got to klick its window, but it does its job. (macdvi could be started via open -a. if the combination textmate-macdvi would be as fast as emacs- xdvi, i wouldn't mind buying a license for macdvi).
thinking about it again i'm not quite sure if it's worth the hassle to provide a dvi-previewer option in textmate as long as this is asked for by a minority. as you wrote earlier, i could change the run- command such that textmate just calls "latex" and start xdvi from the command line letting it run next to textmate. - what bothers me at the moment is the long time it takes to see the result of a change on a simple one-page document. it's a second running latex from the command line but a couple of seconds via textmate's command-r.
but perhaps this will no longer be an issue once i upgrade my hardware and say good bye to ppc :-)
christoph eyrich
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