texexec command line switches missing in ruby version

texexec command line switches missing in ruby version

[Ralf Schmitt]

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

Re: texexec command line switches missing in ruby version

[Hans Hagen]

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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Re: texexec command line switches missing in ruby version

[Ralf Schmitt]

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.

Re: texexec command line switches missing in ruby version

[Hans Hagen]

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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Re: texexec command line switches missing in ruby version

[Peter Rolf]

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

> Hans 
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Re: texexec command line switches missing in ruby version

[Sanjoy Mahajan]

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

Re: texexec command line switches missing in ruby version

[Ralf Schmitt]

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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Re: texexec command line switches missing in ruby version

[Sanjoy Mahajan]

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.

Re: texexec command line switches missing in ruby version

[Ralf Schmitt]

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.

Re: texexec command line switches missing in ruby version

[Hans Hagen]

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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Re: texexec command line switches missing in ruby version

[Sanjoy Mahajan]

> > $ 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.