On 1/21/20 at 3:32 PM, [email protected] (Christopher
Finazzo) wrote:
Oh. So. Close.
I can write a shell script that contains this line and make it
execute but locating the pdftex executable in a way that TeX
expects does not work. The preview window displays the console
output of trying to run this against my input file.
#!/Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex
pdflatex
I regret it's hard for me to usefully comment here since I'm not
familiar with your specific workflow; however, here's what
BBEdit expects from a preview filter. Cribbing from page 260 of
the current manual:
Creating and Using Preview Filters
Preview filters may consist of any of these three types:
* An AppleScript, with an entry point named "FilterTextForBBEditPreview".
This entry point will receive a 'unicode text' object which
is the
document's contents. If there is no
"FilterTextForBBEditPreview" entry
point, the script's run handler will be called with the
text. The script
should return a 'unicode text' result.
* A Unix executable or a symlink to any such item. (For
example, a copy
of the 'multimarkdown' binary.)
* A Unix script; for example, a Perl, Python, Ruby, or shell script.
(Any such script should contain a [ valid :-) ] shebang line.)
Both Unix scripts and Unix executables will receive the document's
contents as UTF-8 text on STDIN and should **return UTF-8 text
(ordinarily, in the form of an HTML document) to STDOUT**.
BBEdit will
then display that output in the Preview window.
so though you could also have your preview filter generate a PDF
and open that in Preview.app, these actions would necessarily be
external to BBEdit.
[PS: In place of your above, I would try a normal shell shebang
line and specify the full path to the desired binary in your
script, e.g.
====
#!/bin/sh
/Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex
====
and if that doesn't help, then please drop a note to support
with more details and we'll be happy to take a look.]
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