[TxMt] LaTeX Bundle question

[Geoff Vallis]

Brad,

That's too bad if so, and seems a bit odd, to me at least. After all,  
an applescript can call a shell script, which could be used to call  
xdvi, presuming that the parameters like line number and file name  
could be passed on to the shell script. And I thought that Textmate  
could in any case invoke shell commands directly, which is all one  
would need along with the file name and line number.

I am presumably missing something!

Geoff


On Feb 6, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Brad Miller wrote:

> Geoff,
>
> The pdfsync commands rely on the applescript capability of the  
> viewers like Skim.  I don't think that is going to be possible with  
> xdvi.
>
> Brad
>
> On Feb 6, 2008, at 11:00 AM, Geoff Vallis wrote:
>
>> Brad,
>>
>> Thanks very much. Your script works as advertised.
>>
>> I'd like now to be able to sync from the source document in  
>> TextMate to the xdvi window. I presume that I need to add some  
>> command in the Latex bundle that is analogous to the existing  
>> command 'show in PDF viewer (pdfsync)'. When I look at that command  
>> in the bundle editor it is not very informative as to how to do  
>> this. Any suggestions?
>>
>> Geoff
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 6, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Brad Miller wrote:
>>
>>> Geoff,
>>>
>>> Using the following directive at the top of your latex file  %!TEX  
>>> TS-program = mytex.sh
>>>
>>>
>>> Then,  write your own shell script to typeset the document in  
>>> latex with your own options and own viewer.  Here's what I wrote  
>>> up as a quick test:
>>>
>>> ----------  snip and save to mytex.sh   -------------
>>>
>>> #!/bin/bash
>>>
>>>
>>> FILE="${TM_LATEX_MASTER:-$TM_FILEPATH}"
>>>
>>>
>>> latex -src-specials -interaction=nonstopmode -file-line-error $@ #  
>>> "$FILE" #&& dvips -t a4 "${FILE%.tex}.dvi" && ps2pdf "$ 
>>> {FILE.tex}.ps"
>>>
>>> xdvi -sourceposition $TM_LINE_NUMBER\$$FILE "${FILE%.tex}.dvi"
>>>
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Save the above to /usr/local/bin or some other directory on your  
>>> path and you are good to go.
>>>
>>>
>>> Make sure to uncheck automatically open pdf in the latex  
>>> preferences window.
>>>
>>> On Feb 6, 2008, at 7:56 AM, Geoff Vallis wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I'm new to TextMate so please forgive my ignorance. My question  
>>>> is: is it possible to, or would it be possible to make, TextMate  
>>>> work well with xdvi? Even though part of the world is trending  
>>>> toward using PDF to display on the Mac, e.g. with Skim, there are  
>>>> still some advantages to xdvi, in particular that the display and  
>>>> updating are very fast, and it is much faster to latex a long  
>>>> document than to pdflatex it.
>>>>
>>>> There are two things that would be needed.
>>>>
>>>> 1. When using latex as the engine, it seems that TextMate also  
>>>> invokes dvips to create a PDF file. This should be turned off.  
>>>> (Perhaps there is already an option for this?) Also, one would  
>>>> need to invoke latex with src-specials turned on (latex -src- 
>>>> specials).
>>>>
>>>> 2. One would like to be able to synchronize from TextMate to  
>>>> xdvi. This can be done with a command like:
>>>> xdvi -sourceposition lineno$texfile $dvifile
>>>> for example
>>>> xdvi -sourceposition 50myfile.tex mymasterfile.dvi
>>>>
>>>> Syncing from xdvi to TextMate is already relatively easy.
>>>>
>>>> I'm guessing all this may be easy for those who are familiar with  
>>>> bundle editing (not me!), or even perhaps has been done already?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Geoff Vallis
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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