[Mac OS X TeX] OzTeX 5.0b7 -- yet another teTeX/gs shell :)

[Hemant K. Bhargava]

Dear Andrew -

Thanks for your message and for setting up the new version of OzTeX.

One thing that will concern most potential users (And current users of 
TeXshop/tetex) is how they can run OzTeX while maintaining their existing 
file structure for packages, bib files, eps/pdf files, etc. Can you suggest 
a good solution for this?

Best wishes, From an OzTeX deserter ...

--On Monday, January 21, 2002 11:44 AM +1100 Andrew Trevorrow 
<andrew at trevorrow.com> wrote:

> All you OzTeX deserters (yes, I know who you are :)) might like to
> try the latest beta release:
>
>    ftp://ftp.trevorrow.com/beta/oztex5b7.sit  (1.2Mb)
>
> If OzTeX is running on OS X then it can call arbitrary Unix commands
> and display the output in the OzTeX window.  This means you can run
> all your favorite teTeX and Ghostscript programs from within OzTeX.
> If you've been using TeXShop/TeXShell/TeXPalette please try the new
> OzTeX and let me know how it compares.
>
> To give you an idea of how it works, here are some extracts from
> the "Calling Unix" file included in the above archive:
>
> Unix commands can be added to the Tools menu by using a new type
> of entry in the extra_tools list in your Local config file.
> These examples show how to call teTeX and Ghostscript programs:
>
>    extra_tools = |
>    "unix,pdftex -fmt=pdflatex -int=nonstopmode %f,pdflatex,tex" |
>    "unix,pdftex -fmt=pdftex -int=nonstopmode %f,pdftex,tex" |
>    "unix,latex -int=nonstopmode %f,latex,tex" |
>    "unix,tex -int=nonstopmode %f,tex,tex" |
>    "unix,bibtex %b,bibtex,tex,aux" |
>    "unix,perl -pi -e 's/\r/\n/g' %f; makeindex %f,makeindex,tex,idx" |
>    "unix,ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 %f,ps2pdf,ps" |
>    "unix,~/bin/tex2pdf.sh %f,TeX-to-PDF,tex" -- $c
>
> OzTeX automatically changes the current working directory to the
> location of the input file before calling the Unix command.
> It also substitutes %f with the input file name and %b with the
> input file's base name; eg. foo if foo.tex is the input file.
> Other rarely needed substitutions are %% = % and %c = comma.
>
> Note that bibtex requires a base name.  Most programs should be
> given a full name, especially if you want to run latex or pdflatex
> on a file whose name ends in ".ltx".
>
> Some teTeX programs, like makeindex, can only process input files
> with Unix line endings, so to run these programs on Mac files you
> can use Perl to translate the line endings, as in the above example.
>
> If you want to do lots of commands in one step then just write a
> shell script and call that.  The TeX-to-PDF item in the above
> example runs a script containing these commands:
>
>    #!/bin/sh -e
>    basename=${1%.*}            # strip off any extension
>    tex -int=nonstopmode $1
>    dvips -Ppdf -o $basename.ps $basename.dvi
>    ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 $basename.ps
>    open -a "Acrobat Reader 5.0" $basename.pdf
>
> Don't forget you can assign command keys to your new menu items.
> For example, to assign command-9 to the TeX-to-PDF item:
>
>    command_keys = $c Tools,TeX-to-PDF,9
>
> Some more tips...
>
> The default shell invoked by OzTeX is tcsh.  Before executing your
> command, tcsh will automatically execute the commands in ~/.tcshrc
> or ~/.cshrc if either file exists.  If you'd prefer to use another
> shell for some reason then put something like "unix_shell = zsh" in
> your Local file (in this case ~/.zshenv is automatically executed).
> If a simple name like zsh is specified then it must exist in /bin.
> If the shell you want to use is somewhere else then specify the
> full path; eg. "unix_shell = /usr/local/bin/bash".
>
> Before calling a Unix command, OzTeX sets PATH to the directories
> specified by the unix_path parameter.  The default setting assumes
> you used Gerben Wierda's teTeX installer.  If you have a different
> version of teTeX then you'll probably need to set unix_path to the
> value returned by typing "echo $PATH" in Terminal.
>
> Andrew
> http://www.trevorrow.com
>
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Hemant K. Bhargava, Penn State University           (Tel: 814-865-6253)
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