[TxMt] compiling *plain* tex documents with postscript figures

[agl]

Brad Miller-6 wrote:
> 
> 
> On Jan 15, 2008, at 5:54 AM, agl wrote:
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>> agl wrote:
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>>> Brad Miller-6 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My suggestion is that you you write yourself a little script  call  
>>>> it
>>>> mytex that calls plain tex and then dvips / ps2pdf  If mytex is on
>>>> your PATH then you can use mytex as the typesetting engine in the %!
>>>> TEX directive.
>>>>
>>>> Brad
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Brad,
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot for your help! Although I am a total newbie with  
>>> TextMate,
>>> after some experiment I came up with the following script called  
>>> "alttex",
>>> which works like a charm (I'm posting it in case it may be of help to
>>> someone else):
>>>
>>> FILE="${TM_LATEX_MASTER:-$TM_FILEPATH}"
>>> etex "$FILE" && dvips -t a4 "${FILE%.tex}.dvi" && ps2pdf "$ 
>>> {FILE.tex}.ps"
>                                                                     ^  
> missing a % here
> 
> I think that should fix it.
> 
> Brad
> 
> 

Brad,

That indeed fixed it. However, there's still a minor nag, namely if there is
no pdf file corresponding to the tex file when you run the script TextMate
doesn't open the newly generated pdf file after the script runs, and it
wrongly complains that it doesn't exist (see my previous posting for more
details). (The second and successive times everything works as expected,
i.e, the existing pdf file is reloaded and brought to the front). Do you
know how this (minor) problem could be fixed?

Cheers,

Artemio
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