[TxMt] Typeset & View (PDF)

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Apr 4, 2007, at 8:36 AM, Alain Matthes wrote:
> Le 4 avr. 07 à 14:04, Charilaos Skiadas a écrit :
>> Ok, the question remains though. The script is already complicated  
>> enough
>
> yes but with  two scripts, the problems would be divided; more  
> users of mac in general works with pdflatex, and the script for  
> pdflatex is simplest.
> I prefer two scripts like "dvi" and "pdf" and there is no ambiguity  
> and no test and it's more simple for you !

Hm, that is a possibility. But are there many users who would like to  
be previewing their files in dvi? And what are the dvi previewers  
available on Intel machines?
>
>> and I wouldn't want to add a whole new option about distillers  
>> until I know there is enough need for that. You can of course just  
>> change the corresponding word in the file to the distiller you  
>> use,. Or do you often switch between the various distillers?
>> I'll plan to add support for this, along with the option to  
>> preview the ps file instead of converting it to pdf, in the Ruby  
>> version of the script, but this won't come out for a couple of  
>> months probably. So is the ability to switch between distillers  
>> really critical? If so, I can see about changing the shell script,  
>> but I try to avoid doing that as much as possible.
>
> No it's not for me!
>
> I hate dvi + ps !!  pdflatex it's very fine for me with Tikz/pgf  
> ( no pstricks)

Ok now I am confused. What are the various compilation paths that you  
would like to see?

1) pdflatex
2) latex + dvips + ps2pdf
3) .... ?

Or is this not what you are asking?

> But if the new script is a Ruby version, i need to learn Ruby... :)

I find that easier than learning Bash ;)

> Alain Matthes

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College