[TxMt] Re: Latex command fail following new security update

[René Schwaiger]

Hi Geoff,

> On 24 Mar 2015, at 13:32 , Geoff Vallis <gkvallis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Ren,
> 
> Your fix did the trick, thanks very much.
> 
> The reasons I don't use 'typeset and view' are twofold. The main one is just that it is a bit slow - I have to wait almost five seconds before it actually starts to typeset, which may not seem very long but when I am 'debugging' it is a little frustrating. Using a terminal window the typesetting starts instantly.  

Commit 39b09967 [1] should improve the startup time of `texmate` significantly. 

[1]: https://github.com/textmate/latex.tmbundle/commit/39b09967

I get an overhead of less than 0.3s if I use `texmate` on a minimal file. The translation of the minimal file inside Terminal using the command `time pdflatex tmp.tex` takes 0.55s. The following command — basically simulating a run of “Typeset & View (PDF)” — inside TextMate takes about 0.79s:

—
#!/usr/bin/env bash

BUNDLE_DIR="$HOME/Library/Application Support/Avian/Bundles/LaTeX.tmbundle"
TM_BUNDLE_DIR="$HOME/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Managed/Bundles"

export TM_FILEPATH="tmp.tex"
export TM_SUPPORT_PATH="$TM_BUNDLE_DIR/Bundle Support.tmbundle/Support/shared"
export TM_BUNDLE_SUPPORT="$BUNDLE_DIR/Support"
export PATH="$BUNDLE_DIR/Support/bin":$PATH
export TM_SELECTION='1:1'

texmate.py -suppressview latex -latexmk no -engine pdflatex
—

tmp.tex:
—
\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
Bla
\end{document}
—

Could you maybe test the above example and send in your results. If it takes multiples seconds before `texmate` starts typesetting, then maybe your local copy of the bundle does not contain the changes done in commit 5074427f [2]?

[2]: https://github.com/textmate/latex.tmbundle/commit/5074427f

> The second reason is that I can go back and forth between xelatex and pdflatex easily by setting up two scripts with different keyboard shortcuts, which I find quite convenient.

You can change the typesetting engine used by “Typeset & View (PDF)” with the following commands:

    defaults write com.macromates.textmate.preview latexEngine xelatex
    defaults write com.macromates.textmate.preview latexEngine pdflatex

>  I know there are some advantages to 'typeset and view' and if it were a bit quicker, like the equivalent command in TexShop which is quite fast, I would use it.

Hopefully the latest changes help.

> Thanks again
> Geoff

Kind regards,
  René