[OS X TeX] Changing texdoc behaviour

Charilaos Skiadas skiadas at hanover.edu
Mon Jan 29 01:56:44 EST 2007


On Jan 28, 2007, at 11:26 PM, Alan Munn wrote:
>>
>> dvipdf $FileName $OutputFile
>> open -a preview $OutputFile
>
> Thanks.  That was what I figured out soon after.
>
I would quote most of these variable names, in case they have spaces  
in them:

#!/bin/sh
FileName= `basename $1 .dvi`
OutputFile= "/var/tmp/$FileName.pdf"
dvipdf "$FileName" "$OutputFile"
open -a preview "$OutputFile"

Perhaps it would never happen, but it is a good habit to get into.

> Alan

>

Haris



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