* texexec command line switches missing in ruby version
@ 2006-09-26 12:21 Ralf Schmitt
2006-09-26 12:29 ` Hans Hagen
2006-09-26 12:35 ` Ralf Schmitt
0 siblings, 2 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Ralf Schmitt @ 2006-09-26 12:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi all,
the ruby version of texexec is missing some command line switches I have
been using. I'm missing --result (however, I could live without that)
and especially --mode and --passon. Are there any workarounds?
Also, texexec doesn't complain when given a command line switch, which
it doesn't understand.
Regards,
- Ralf
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* Re: texexec command line switches missing in ruby version
2006-09-26 12:21 texexec command line switches missing in ruby version Ralf Schmitt
@ 2006-09-26 12:29 ` Hans Hagen
2006-09-26 12:35 ` Ralf Schmitt
1 sibling, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Hans Hagen @ 2006-09-26 12:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
Ralf Schmitt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> the ruby version of texexec is missing some command line switches I have
> been using. I'm missing --result (however, I could live without that)
> and especially --mode and --passon. Are there any workarounds?
>
hm, mode and result should work (TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006))
> Also, texexec doesn't complain when given a command line switch, which
> it doesn't understand.
>
>
on the todo list
Hans
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2006-09-26 12:21 texexec command line switches missing in ruby version Ralf Schmitt
2006-09-26 12:29 ` Hans Hagen
@ 2006-09-26 12:35 ` Ralf Schmitt
2006-09-26 16:29 ` Hans Hagen
2006-09-27 4:02 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
1 sibling, 2 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Ralf Schmitt @ 2006-09-26 12:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
Ralf Schmitt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> the ruby version of texexec is missing some command line switches I have
> been using. I'm missing --result (however, I could live without that)
> and especially --mode and --passon. Are there any workarounds?
Apparently I'm a bit mistaken:
--mode is working. --result is not. None is listed in texexec --help.
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* Re: texexec command line switches missing in ruby version
2006-09-26 12:35 ` Ralf Schmitt
@ 2006-09-26 16:29 ` Hans Hagen
2006-09-26 17:28 ` Peter Rolf
2006-09-27 4:02 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
1 sibling, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Hans Hagen @ 2006-09-26 16:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
Ralf Schmitt wrote:
> Ralf Schmitt wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> the ruby version of texexec is missing some command line switches I have
>> been using. I'm missing --result (however, I could live without that)
>> and especially --mode and --passon. Are there any workarounds?
>>
>
> Apparently I'm a bit mistaken:
> --mode is working. --result is not. None is listed in texexec --help.
>
strange, since
texexec test --result=oeps
just works here. Do others have similar problems with --result?
Hans
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2006-09-26 16:29 ` Hans Hagen
@ 2006-09-26 17:28 ` Peter Rolf
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From: Peter Rolf @ 2006-09-26 17:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hans Hagen wrote:
> Ralf Schmitt wrote:
>> Ralf Schmitt wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> the ruby version of texexec is missing some command line switches I have
>>> been using. I'm missing --result (however, I could live without that)
>>> and especially --mode and --passon. Are there any workarounds?
>>>
>> Apparently I'm a bit mistaken:
>> --mode is working. --result is not. None is listed in texexec --help.
>>
> strange, since
>
> texexec test --result=oeps
>
> just works here. Do others have similar problems with --result?
>
oeps works here (yesterdays beta)
texmfstart texexec --autopdf --result=oeps test
Peter
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* Re: texexec command line switches missing in ruby version
2006-09-26 12:35 ` Ralf Schmitt
2006-09-26 16:29 ` Hans Hagen
@ 2006-09-27 4:02 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-09-27 7:08 ` Ralf Schmitt
1 sibling, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Sanjoy Mahajan @ 2006-09-27 4:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
Ralf Schmitt <ralf@brainbot.com> wrote:
> Apparently I'm a bit mistaken:
> --mode is working. --result is not. None is listed in texexec --help.
I haven't noticed problems with those. But could you post a short test
file and the full command line that you use? Then I can test it here
(running Linux, not sure if that's what you are running).
I have noticed that --passon hasn't been working since I switched from
perl to ruby texexec. I used to use to turn on -file-line-error to get
an error output format that more closely matches what a C compiler
produces, and is therefore easier for Emacs to parse in a *compilation*
buffer.
-Sanjoy
`A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.'
-- Bertrand de Jouvenal
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* Re: texexec command line switches missing in ruby version
2006-09-27 4:02 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
@ 2006-09-27 7:08 ` Ralf Schmitt
2006-09-27 11:59 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Ralf Schmitt @ 2006-09-27 7:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> Ralf Schmitt <ralf@brainbot.com> wrote:
>> Apparently I'm a bit mistaken:
>> --mode is working. --result is not. None is listed in texexec --help.
>
> I haven't noticed problems with those. But could you post a short test
> file and the full command line that you use? Then I can test it here
> (running Linux, not sure if that's what you are running).
>
I'm also running linux. Complete typescript follows.
Regards,
- Ralf
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread* Re: texexec command line switches missing in ruby version
2006-09-27 7:08 ` Ralf Schmitt
@ 2006-09-27 11:59 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-09-27 12:22 ` Ralf Schmitt
0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Sanjoy Mahajan @ 2006-09-27 11:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
I'm not sure if your command got mangled by the mailer disliking long
lines, but it looks like you have this line:
ralf@schrotti:~/tmp$ ~/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb texexec t.tex -- result bla.pdf
i.e. something like "texexec t.tex -- result bla.pdf"
The texexec man entry, I think for the perl version, says:
--result=FILENAME
Allows you to change the basename of the output
file. See --mode for an example.
And this command works:
texexec t.tex --result=bla
Although at the end it says:
TeXExec | renaming t to bla
TeXExec | restoring t
TeXExec | fatal error No such file or directory - t.tuo
Is the last line anything to worry about, perhaps in a more complex
test file that needed the .tuo file?
By the way, I use these two executable scripts to shorten the command
lines:
$ cat /home/sanjoy/bin/texmfstart
#!/bin/bash
ruby `kpsewhich --format=texmfscripts texmfstart.rb` "$@"
$ cat /home/sanjoy/bin/texexec
#!/bin/sh
texmfstart texexec.rb "$@"
-Sanjoy
`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
--Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.
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2006-09-27 11:59 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
@ 2006-09-27 12:22 ` Ralf Schmitt
2006-09-27 12:39 ` Hans Hagen
2006-09-27 13:23 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
0 siblings, 2 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Ralf Schmitt @ 2006-09-27 12:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> I'm not sure if your command got mangled by the mailer disliking long
> lines, but it looks like you have this line:
>
> ralf@schrotti:~/tmp$ ~/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb texexec t.tex -- result bla.pdf
>
> i.e. something like "texexec t.tex -- result bla.pdf"
>
it was texexec t.tex --result bla.pdf (i.e. without the space between --
and result).
> The texexec man entry, I think for the perl version, says:
>
> --result=FILENAME
> Allows you to change the basename of the output
> file. See --mode for an example.
>
> And this command works:
>
> texexec t.tex --result=bla
>
same here. the equal sign was missing from my command line (the perl
version works without an equal sign).
> Although at the end it says:
>
> TeXExec | renaming t to bla
> TeXExec | restoring t
> TeXExec | fatal error No such file or directory - t.tuo
>
> Is the last line anything to worry about, perhaps in a more complex
> test file that needed the .tuo file?
>
> By the way, I use these two executable scripts to shorten the command
> lines:
>
> $ cat /home/sanjoy/bin/texmfstart
> #!/bin/bash
> ruby `kpsewhich --format=texmfscripts texmfstart.rb` "$@"
>
> $ cat /home/sanjoy/bin/texexec
> #!/bin/sh
> texmfstart texexec.rb "$@"
>
Thanks, I'm using them too, but I remember there was some confusion
about "$@" versus $@ in this command.
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* Re: texexec command line switches missing in ruby version
2006-09-27 12:22 ` Ralf Schmitt
@ 2006-09-27 12:39 ` Hans Hagen
2006-09-27 13:23 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
1 sibling, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Hans Hagen @ 2006-09-27 12:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
Ralf Schmitt wrote:
>> And this command works:
>>
>> texexec t.tex --result=bla
>>
>>
that's the intended usage (using the = sign)
> same here. the equal sign was missing from my command line (the perl
> version works without an equal sign).
>
hm, i never tested that and i also never assumed that -)
when i started using ruby there was no proper command line handler so i
wrote one myself; that one also hooks nicely into other pieces of the
system now
>
>> By the way, I use these two executable scripts to shorten the command
>> lines:
>>
>> $ cat /home/sanjoy/bin/texmfstart
>> #!/bin/bash
>> ruby `kpsewhich --format=texmfscripts texmfstart.rb` "$@"
>>
>> $ cat /home/sanjoy/bin/texexec
>> #!/bin/sh
>> texmfstart texexec.rb "$@"
>>
>>
>
>
normally texmfstart is a bit faster because it passes on info to the sub
processes about the env used and so
Hans
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2006-09-27 12:22 ` Ralf Schmitt
2006-09-27 12:39 ` Hans Hagen
@ 2006-09-27 13:23 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
1 sibling, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Sanjoy Mahajan @ 2006-09-27 13:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
> > $ cat /home/sanjoy/bin/texmfstart
> > #!/bin/bash
> > ruby `kpsewhich --format=texmfscripts texmfstart.rb` "$@"
> >
> > $ cat /home/sanjoy/bin/texexec
> > #!/bin/sh
> > texmfstart texexec.rb "$@"
> >
>
> Thanks, I'm using them too, but I remember there was some confusion
> about "$@" versus $@ in this command.
"$@" is correct. $@ passes on arguments one word at a time whereas
"$@" will wrap each argument in quotes. I know that's a cloudy
explanation, so here's an example of the difference. If you have a
filename with spaces (gah!) like "abc def.tex", then
texexec "abc def.tex"
will execute (with "$@")
texmfstart texexec.rb "abc def.tex" # good
whereas using $@ it would execute
texmfstart texexec.rb abc def.tex # not good!
-Sanjoy
`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
--Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.
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2006-09-26 12:21 texexec command line switches missing in ruby version Ralf Schmitt
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