[OS X TeX] Bibdesk choose fields and automate

[Herb Schulz]

On 4/28/05 2:18 PM, "Maarten Sneep" <maarten.sneep at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 28 apr 2005, at 19:47, Herb Schulz wrote:
> 
>> On 4/28/05 7:22 AM, "Maarten Sneep" <maarten.sneep at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>>> This is my engine code
>>>> ******************************
>>>> #!/bin/sh
>>>> bfname=$(dirname "$1")/"`basename "$1" .tex`"
>>> 
>>> Practically all tex-related tools expect to be run from the same
>>> directory as the main tex file.
>>> bfname=`basename "$1" .tex`
>>> pushd `dirname "$1"` # this may be superfluous, as TeXShop probably
>>> does it for you already
>>> 
>> 
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> That snippet came form me. I've noticed that the dirname call seems to
>> be
>> superfluous in a TeXShop engine but habits from writing shell scripts
>> and
>> especially for Dropscripts creep in all the time. I guess I'd say that
>> it
>> also doesn't hurt; except for the few milliseconds it takes to execute.
> 
> Not entirely: if this were used in a dropscript, or a 'On my command'
> script, it would hurt.
> Since tex (or rather the kpse lib) starts searching for files from the
> current directory, is
> matters quite a bit: the original may very well cause errors because
> \include{chapter1} fails,
> or because \includegraphics{figures/graph} fails.
> 
> Or am I mistaken, and does tex append the relative path to the master
> input file
> (silently) to all other relative path searches (and just store the
> log-files elsewhere.
> I must admit I never actually tried this: running tex on a master file
> from a different
> directory.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Maarten
> 

Howdy,

>From what I've seen all that happens is that a ./ is pre-pended to the base
file name. I'll have to try it to see if this does anything with
master-include files.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)

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