[TxMt] LaTeX Bundle question

[Charilaos Skiadas]

Geoff are you by any chance setting the TM_LATEX_MASTER variable  
under TextMate -> Preferences -> Advanced? Then TM will always use that.
But perhaps I've missed some part of this conversation.

I don't use xdvi for the very simple reason that by this point in  
time I don't feel the need to look at the output, simply looking at  
the code tells me all I need to know about how the output is going to  
be like, for the most part. And usually I don't have X11 running.

I'm a bit confused though. Do you still go through texMate.py,  
calling the existing compile command, or do you use your own command  
(command \equiv bundle item)? If it's the latter, then I don't see  
how the %!TEX directive will work, unless you do something special in  
your command. TextMate by itself does not do anything with the file,  
it just calls your command directly. In texMate,py, we have a lot of  
code whose job is exactly to locate the root file, if any, and use  
that, and that's what the built in compilation command uses.

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College

On Feb 7, 2008, at 8:17 PM, Brad Miller wrote:

> It sounds to me like you must have TM_LATEX_MASTER set in  a  
> project file or in .textmate_init in a project or something.
> The latex bundle does not set TM_LATEX_MASTER, it only uses the  
> variable if its set.  Are you sure it is always the previous master  
> file?
>
> Try typing this into a latex file and then pressing ctrl-r  This  
> will tell you what the environment variable is set to without  
> running any latex commands.  If it does not return a blank line  
> then you need to hunt through your environment and see where it is  
> set.
>
> echo $TM_LATEX_MASTER
>
>
> Brad
>
> On Feb 7, 2008, at 7:06 PM, Geoff Vallis wrote:
>
>>
>>>> You should add a line something like this:
>>>
>>> DVIFILE=${TM_LATEX_MASTER:-$TM_FILEPATH}
>>>
>>> Then use ${DVIFILE%.tex}.dvi  on the /path/dvisync......  command
>>>
>>>
>>> That will depend on how and where you are setting  
>>> TM_LATEX_MASTER.  This variable is around only for backward  
>>> compatibility with previous versions of the latex bundle.   The  
>>> preferred method for setting the master file is to put
>>>
>>> %!TEX root = /path/to/root  in your tex file.    BUT  that will  
>>> not help you in your situation.  I thought you said you were  
>>> working with one giant file.
>>
>>
>> In fact I have files that are stand-alone, and others that sit  
>> under a root file. And I do use the %!TEX root method of setting  
>> the master file, not any other - it seems similar to what texshop  
>> and bbedit use.
>>
>> I've tried using DVIFILE=${TM_LATEX_MASTER:-$TM_FILEPATH} in my  
>> bundle, and it kind of works. But if I go from editing and  
>> latexing a collection of files which has a master file, to editing  
>> a stand-alone file, then textmate still tries to use the previous  
>> master file when dvi-syncing the stand-alone file, which obviously  
>> doesn't work. I can work around it with two bundles, or restarting  
>> textmate, but that seems very clunky.
>>
>> But thanks for your input. I realize that there's not a whole lot  
>> of folk using xdvi with textmate.
>>
>> Geoff
>>