Thanks Ted and Alessandro, Your comments have been very helpful. I had a look at rubber and it seems to be a very interesting tool. The debian package didn't run out of the box, though and I am under a bit of time pressure. So vimlatex is doing the job now. It works great. Thanks for the hint, Ted.
Best, Ingo On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:02:53PM +0100, Alessandro Pezzoni wrote: > > This issue has been discussed ad nauseum on this mailing list in the > > past, and several solutions have been suggested. rubber is one of them, > > but there are other ways to mitigate these problems. > > > > Here is an archive of solutions from 2008: > > > > http://phaseportrait.blogspot.com/2008/03/fixing-vim-latex-compiler-error.html > > > > It includes > > > > * rubber > > > > * adjusting your latex compile rule to use "-file-line-error-style" > > (support for this EFM has already been added to Vim-LaTeX, and so that > > step can be skipped) > > > > * a script like "vimlatex" that wraps latex and attempts to sanitize the > > multi-line error messages into a form that Vim is happy with. > > > > You can actually combine the second and third bullet. > > > > A downside of -file-line-error-style (which is just > > -file-line-error in > > newest versions of latex) is that it doesn't help with warnings. Rubber > > also doesn't help with all warnings. So if you really care about > > catching warnings, your mileage may vary. > > It probably doesn't fit in the manual, but could we at least add this > piece of information to the FAQ? This seems to be a fairly common > issue. > > Alessandro > -- Ingo Fründ, Dr. rer. nat. Elder Lab, Center for Vision Research York University, Toronto www.ingofruend.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Vim-latex-devel mailing list Vim-latex-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vim-latex-devel
