[TxMt] LaTeX Bundle question

[Brad Miller]

On Feb 8, 2008, at 11:43 AM, Geoff Vallis wrote:

>
> With help from Brad in setting the root file correctly, I finally  
> got a working bundle for syncing with xdvi. It is very short, and I  
> listed it below. It doesn't go through texMate.py. I do think that  
> it would be nice eventually to incorporate xdvi syncing into  
> texMate.py, but at least for now this does the trick.  Note that  
> syncing requires that latex be called with the option '-src' so that  
> source specials are included.
>
> Relatedly, would be be possible to create a command 'Typeset (DVI)'  
> that is analogous to 'Typeset and View (PDF)', that calls the latex  
> (dvi) engine (but not dvips), that goes through texMate.py, and that  
> one can call with a keyboard shortcut without either changing one's  
> latex preferences and without adding a special TS-program line at  
> the top of the file?
>

I've put xdvi support on my todo list for a future texMate.py  
release.  I think I would prefer to make texMate smart enough that if  
xdvi is the viewer the dvips step is skipped.  That would keep all the  
other options and preferences intact without creating another shortcut.

My one concern about this path going forward is that latex itself  
seems more and more insistent on producing pdf output.  I tried a  
couple of old documents yesterday  and even using the -output- 
format=dvi option latex still created a pdf file for me.

Brad

> Thanks to all for their comments.
>
> Geoff
>
> --------------------------
>
> divsync bundle:
>
> TM_LATEX_MASTER=`${TM_RUBY:-ruby} <<"RUBY"
> require "#{ENV['TM_SUPPORT_PATH']}/lib/escape.rb"
> require "#{ENV['TM_SUPPORT_PATH']}/lib/LaTeXUtils.rb"
>
> master = LaTeX.master(ENV['TM_LATEX_MASTER'] || ENV['TM_FILEPATH'])
> puts master
> RUBY`
>
> DVIFILE=${TM_LATEX_MASTER:-$TM_FILEPATH}
>
> /pathto/dvisync.sh $TM_LINE_NUMBER $TM_FILENAME ${DVIFILE%.tex}.dvi
>
> ---------------------------
>
> dvisync.sh:  (shell script)
>
> #!/bin/tcsh
> /usr/texbin/xdvi -sourceposition $1$2 $3
>
> ---------------------------
>
>
>
> On Feb 7, 2008, at 9:52 PM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>
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