[OS X TeX] I do like ps4pdf

[Michael Hoppe]

>  #!/bin/sh
>  location=$(dirname "$1")
>  basefname="${location}/`basename "$1" .tex`"
>  # process the figures
>  latex --shell-escape "$1"
>  dvips -Ppdf -o "${basefname}-pics.ps" "${basefname}.dvi"
>  ps2pdf13 "${basefname}-pics.ps" "${basefname}-pics.pdf"
>  /bin/rm "${basefname}-pics.ps" "${basefname}.dvi"

OK, but you're aware of that this mumbo-jumbo is only needed once: 
when the pics are to be created.

>  #process the file
>  pdflatex --shell-escape "$1"

Did you think of the use of

     %&latex

resp.

     %&pdflatex

at the very beginning of the main .tex-file?  Using that feature it's 
just a joke in AlphaX together with teTeXComm to do the job.  Just 
put the former %&latex in first line to produce the picture-file; 
during the "normal" changes of the .tex-files, where there are no 
changes of the graphics, you just start with the latter %&pdflatex.

Michael
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