[TxMt] Typeset & View (PDF)

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Apr 4, 2007, at 11:25 AM, Jay Gambetta wrote:

> 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.

I have already said twice in this thread that if you include the line:
%!TEX TS-program=latex
in your first 20 lines, then TextMate will go the dvi->ps->pdf route  
instead.
a) Is this not working?
b) Is this not enough?
We could have a separate command I suppose, but I really don't see  
the reason for having 2 different separate commands, which would  
require of course two different keycombos.

> 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)

So you would want dvi->ps->pdf when there are figures, and direct  
pdflatex otherwise? That's hard for TM to decide. I would suggest  
keeping all figures in both eps and pdf format, then you would be  
able to use pdfsync most of the time until the final draft, where you  
would want to disable it anyway since it affects the spacing. This  
way you don't have to go back and forth between the two compilation  
methods anyway.

The syncing without pdfsync is not something that can be easily  
accomplished in TextMate, unfortunately. It requires a very tight  
coupling between the editor and the viewer. TeXShop really excels there.

> 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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Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College