[TxMt] Re: latex master paths

[Chipper]

Thanks! That's interesting...I confess a lingering fondess for the TexShop
interface. What you've adopted is the 2.4 version of how to set up the old
set project root command, I think. 

Ray


Gildas Hamel wrote:
> 
> * chip brock (brock at pa.msu.edu) wrote:
>   |>  Hi
>   |>  
>   |>  Switching over to Textmate for Latex projects. I realize that I
> don't understand setting the master file (which does all of the
> \include's). 
>   |>  
>   |>  I have an issue of trying to use more than one computer to work on a
> single latex project. I use dropbox to keep computers sync'd. 
>   |>  
>   |>  Let's suppose I have an identical directory structure, down from the
> home area:
>   |>  
>  
> I use a similar setup: dropbox to synchronize my desk and portable
> computers. For each folder where I keep a piece of work, say a book, I set
> up a file I call root.tex, with all of the formatting and \include(s). At
> the top of all of the files I'm including, I use Preferences in the
> Latexbundle to set the master file, with a line such as:
> %!TEX root = /Users/me/Documents/Work/Writing/Books/newbook/root.tex
> 
> The Watch Document command in the Latex bundle will work from inside any
> of the documents included in root.tex.  The standard command + R
> typesetting command needs to be issued from root.tex.
> 
> I presently do the typesetting not in TextMate but I switch to TeXShop and
> latexmk (pdflatexmk or xelatexmk)---their most recent versions---, because
> I often like to use the -pvc flag (continuous preview) of latexmk.
> Furthermore, I use biber and the most recent version of biblatex in
> texlive 2010.  I set TeXShop for an external editor in its preferences,
> and added the flag -pvc to its latexmk engines. At the top of my root.tex
> file, I have the line:
> %!TEX TS-program = xelatexmk (or pdflatexmk as the case may be)
> 
> Once I start TeXShop for typesetting, I use command + tab to switch to
> TextMate project window, and back and forth. Any save in TextMate or in
> BibDesk bib files will trigger latexmk. Editing in TextMate allows me to
> do citations from BibDesk without opening it.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> -- gildas
> 
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