[TxMt] LaTeX: feature suggestions for the LaTeX bundle.

[Kevin Ballard]

On Dec 3, 2006, at 2:10 PM, Maarten Sneep wrote:

> I scan the whole line where the insertion point is, and open the  
> first one I find. A variation of the command opens all referenced  
> files in the current document. For the graphics you may want to  
> perform some additional trickery (people who use metapost may want  
> the source of the image, rather than the pdf -- and some more name- 
> mangling may be needed).

If you tell me what sort of trickery you'd like, I can try and modify  
the command to use it.

>> As far as encoding goes, TextMate always presents its commands  
>> with utf-8 data, taking care of trying to figure out the encoding  
>> of the original file as best it can, and keeping this transparent  
>> from the bundle items, which just act on utf-8 data. Allan has  
>> talked extensively on his views on the whole encoding issue [2].  
>> Let us know of any particular problems you encounter.
>
> Well, tex was written in the pure 7-bit era, when computing  
> dinosaurs inhabited the face if the internet, there may even have  
> been a version that could run on an EBCDIC system. There are  
> versions coming (xetex, luatex) that will handle utf-8 natively,  
> but at this moment, tex itself is only 8-bit clean. There is an  
> inputenc module that handles utf8, but it is far from complete.  
> Most tex users who want to type characters beyond 7-bit ASCII will  
> rely on one of the 8-bit sets (iso-latin-1 through 15, etc). Since  
> this encodung is given in the source, it is not completely trivial  
> to change this automagically.

Well, TextMate likes to save things as UTF-8. I have an idea, but I  
don't know if it would actually work quite right. Tell me what you  
think:

Let TextMate save files as UTF-8. Specify a %!TEX encoding = enc- 
name. The Typeset command could then pass the file through iconv to  
convert to the desired encoding, and save it temporarily on disc  
as .filename.converted.tex, and then pass the -jobname switch to  
pdflatex to tell it to use the original filename as the name for the  
job.

-- 
Kevin Ballard
http://kevin.sb.org
kevin at sb.org
http://www.tildesoft.com


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