David Kastrup wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes >>>On Saturday, 23. March 2002 22:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote >>>> Is it possible to setup tetex to produce postscript files instead of >>>> dvi? I find that I'm almost always converting the dvi to ps, either for >>>> printing or even on-screen viewing ... I can type 'dvips ...; gv ...' >>>> almost in my sleep. >>> >>> Wouldn't it be a smart solution to write a simple script which contains these >>> commands and does the conversion automatically ? >> >> [...] I think the >> biggest hassle is writing code to check to see if the (la)tex file >> compiled properly... Guess I was hoping that someone had done it already > > Somebody somewhere has written a big Makefile template for this, and > of course there are dozens of TeX "environments" around that do > things like this.
I'm quite surprised that nobody has mentioned "latexmk" yet: http://www.phys.psu.edu/~collins/software/latexmk-jcc/ It's in Perl and works like a charm. Too bad it's not a proper CPAN _module_ that can be used in other projects. BTW, this thread is probably OT. Kind regards, Thomas -- Thomas Anders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin, Germany
