Re: Avoiding dvi files
Thomas Anders wrote: I'm quite surprised that nobody has mentioned latexmk yet: http://www.phys.psu.edu/~collins/software/latexmk-jcc/ It's in Perl and works like a charm. Too bad it's not a proper CPAN _module_ that can be used in other projects. Thanks for this pointer. Grabbed it, and it seems to work quite nicely! BTW, this thread is probably OT. Yes, it got that way quite quickly ... I did start it off intending it to be a simple tetex question... -- Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://users.uniserve.com/~bvdpoel
Avoiding dvi files
Is it possible to setup tetex to produce postscript files instead of dvi? I find that I'm almost always converting the dvi to ps, either for printing or even on-screen viewing ... I can type 'dvips ...; gv ...' almost in my sleep. -- Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://users.uniserve.com/~bvdpoel
Re: Avoiding dvi files
Sebastian Rahtz wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 02:02:38PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to setup tetex to produce postscript files instead of dvi? I find that I'm almost always converting the dvi to ps, either for printing or even on-screen viewing ... I can type 'dvips ...; gv ...' almost in my sleep. this is why god (or other deity of your choice) gave you pdftex. just use pdftex followed by xpdf|gv|acroread. To be truthful, I'd not even thought of pdf(la)tex. Yes, this may be a reasonable solution...expect that it produces pdf, not ps, files. I'm not sure, but I think that to print pdf files to my postscript printer they first would need to be converted to ps. I'm really not all that familiar with pdf, except that I know that xpdf doesn't display type3 fonts properly and acroread is huge and slow. Is there some overwhelming reason to use pdf instead of ps? Thanks for the response. -- Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://users.uniserve.com/~bvdpoel
Re: Avoiding dvi files
Ingo Krabbe wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 23. March 2002 22:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to setup tetex to produce postscript files instead of dvi? I find that I'm almost always converting the dvi to ps, either for printing or even on-screen viewing ... I can type 'dvips ...; gv ...' almost in my sleep. Wouldn't it be a smart solution to write a simple script which contains these commands and does the conversion automatically ? You could name that script pstex for example and it would have a layout similar to tex $1 dvips ... gv ... Yes, I'd thought of that...but it's not all that simple. I think the biggest hassle is writing code to check to see if the (la)tex file compiled properly... Guess I was hoping that someone had done it already :) However, I thought I'd read of some version of tex which did produce ps files directly. Maybe it's a commercial version or something. Thanks for the reply -- Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://users.uniserve.com/~bvdpoel
