[TxMt] Typeset & View (PDF)

[Jay Gambetta]

Hey

Just to add another vote for 2 scripts for textmate.

I would love to see dvi--> ps --> pdf as allot of journals (that i  
publish papers in) still only accept eps figures and as such i must  
keep using eps and to the best of my knowledge i cant use pdflatex  
with eps figures. FYI this problem stops allot of my colleagues  
switching to textmate from texshop  as we need this option if we want  
to submit our papers.

Currently to get around this i just set OPTIONS_program to latex in  
the shell variables but this is not the best as it stops pdfsync and  
other nice pdflatex features working when i do not have figures.  
(also is it possible to get a sync feature working with latex as  
texshop allows this, if so i had trouble finding the answer with google)

Thanks
Jay

ps sorry if this problem has been talked about heaps, i have just  
switch to textmate so i'm new to the list.



On Apr 4, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Alain Matthes wrote:

>
> Le 4 avr. 07 à 14:50, Charilaos Skiadas a écrit :
>
>> 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?
>
> no dvi it's for dvi --> ps ---> pdf : latex + dvips + ps2pdf
>
> you can make a test and red some news on comp.text.tex or  
> de.comp.text.tex
> or fr.comp.text.tex without pstricks a lot of people
> (the majority) work with dvi + ps + pdf and latin1.
> For me it's a  wrong way because pdf and utf8 are the best tools...
>
>
>
>>>
>>> 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) .... ?
>
> 1) for me pdflatex but a simple version that each user can adapt  
> according to his needs
>
> 2) now if you want that's a lot of latex's users work with textmate  
> I think that
>  it is important that they can easily compile with latex + dvips +  
> ps2pdf
>
> 3) There is a last category of users, those which use gnuplot,  
> asymptote and pst-pdf.
>   a) gnuplot : you need the --shell-escape option if the script is  
> simple is not a problem :
>   for example in my case :
>
>   run_tex () {
>          "$TEX" ${TM_LATEX_OPTIONS:=--shell-escape
>          -interaction=nonstopmode -file-line-error-style} "$1"
>    }
>
> b) with asymptote you need to chain scripts :
>   example with asy and pdflatex
>
> run_tex () {
> location=$(dirname "$1")
> basefname="${location}/`basename "$1" .tex`"
>
> cd $location
> pdflatex --shell-escape "$1"
> echo '<h2>Compiling with Asymptote…</h2>'
> asy "${basefname}.asy"
> pdflatex --shell-escape "$1"
> }
>
> c) with pst-pdf : it's the good way to use pstricks with pdflatex,  
> and you need to use
>  ps4pdf ( google ps4pdf herbert voss)
>
> TEX=${TM_LATEX_COMPILER:=ps4pdf} is easy and the work is fine
>
> It is the reasons for which scripts must be simple, but actually  
> for me TextMate is the best tool to work with Latex.
>
> Perhaps : a good help with comment on the script is a solution
>
> Greetings Alain Matthes
>
> PS : Beginning programmation with Ruby by Chris Pine is a good book  
> for a newbie !
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