A useful gedit macro for LaTeX

tips 30 April 2008 | 0 Comments

Builds and displays your current LaTeX document, and removes all the temporary file spam.

#!/bin/bash
TMPDIR=$(mktemp -td)
 
rubber -d --into "$TMPDIR" "$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME" &&
mv "$TMPDIR/${GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME%tex}pdf" "$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_DIR"
 
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
	then evince "${GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME%tex}pdf" &
fi
 
rm -rf "$TMPDIR"

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