[TxMt] LaTeX Bundle question

[Brad Miller]

On Feb 6, 2008, at 1:13 PM, Geoff Vallis wrote:

> 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!
>

You are probably right.  I didn't think about it very carefully, and I  
don't really know anything about xdvi anymore as I've been very  
happily using pdf for several years now.

I would presume that if it can all be done in a shell script then  
using the TM_ variables would give you enough info to put together a  
script.  In fact this script could simply be the body of a TextMate  
bundle command.

Brad

> 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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