Texi2dvi: forcing a recompile?

Texi2dvi: forcing a recompile?

[Jeff Horn]

Just a heads up: it looks like using texi2dvi for
org-latex-to-pdf-process will not recompile a tex file in certain
cases. I have different output and source directories, and when I
publish a changed org file, texi2dvi appears to not process a tex file
when the pdf is already in the output directory.

I guess this could be an org-mode bug, since that default behavior
doesn't make sense and texi2dvi doesn't have a "force" flag. To me, it
appears that org-mode picks up the change in the org file and creates
the tex document correctly. The pdf isn't recreated unless I delete
the pdf in the output directory and then call org-publish-project
again.

Jeff

-- 
Jeffrey Horn
Graduate Lecturer and PhD Student in Economics
George Mason University

(704) 271-4797
jhorn@gmu.edu
jrhorn424@gmail.com

http://www.failuretorefrain.com/jeff/

Re: Texi2dvi: forcing a recompile?

[Jeff Horn]

BTW, the HTML file is updated fine in the output directory. Seems like
it *is* texi2dvi.

Jeff

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a heads up: it looks like using texi2dvi for
> org-latex-to-pdf-process will not recompile a tex file in certain
> cases. I have different output and source directories, and when I
> publish a changed org file, texi2dvi appears to not process a tex file
> when the pdf is already in the output directory.
>
> I guess this could be an org-mode bug, since that default behavior
> doesn't make sense and texi2dvi doesn't have a "force" flag. To me, it
> appears that org-mode picks up the change in the org file and creates
> the tex document correctly. The pdf isn't recreated unless I delete
> the pdf in the output directory and then call org-publish-project
> again.
>
> Jeff
>
> --
> Jeffrey Horn
> Graduate Lecturer and PhD Student in Economics
> George Mason University
>
> (704) 271-4797
> jhorn@gmu.edu
> jrhorn424@gmail.com
>
> http://www.failuretorefrain.com/jeff/
>



-- 
Jeffrey Horn
Graduate Lecturer and PhD Student in Economics
George Mason University

(704) 271-4797
jhorn@gmu.edu
jrhorn424@gmail.com

http://www.failuretorefrain.com/jeff/

Re: Texi2dvi: forcing a recompile?

[Jeff Horn]

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Mike McLean <mike.mclean@pobox.com> wrote:
> I solve this with a forced remove:
>
> (setq org-latex-to-pdf-process (quote ("rm %b.pdf" "texi2dvi -p -b -c -V
> %f")))

Nice! Very clever. Thanks for the tip! (CC-ing to the list, hope that's OK)

-- 
Jeffrey Horn
Graduate Lecturer and PhD Student in Economics
George Mason University

(704) 271-4797
jhorn@gmu.edu
jrhorn424@gmail.com

http://www.failuretorefrain.com/jeff/

Re: Texi2dvi: forcing a recompile?

[Jeff Horn]

Small problem: if the file doesn't exist, rm fails with error, which
stops the process (the PDF file is not produced). This happens if I
create a new source file in my project.

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Mike McLean <mike.mclean@pobox.com> wrote:
>> I solve this with a forced remove:
>>
>> (setq org-latex-to-pdf-process (quote ("rm %b.pdf" "texi2dvi -p -b -c -V
>> %f")))
>
> Nice! Very clever. Thanks for the tip! (CC-ing to the list, hope that's OK)
>
> --
> Jeffrey Horn
> Graduate Lecturer and PhD Student in Economics
> George Mason University
>
> (704) 271-4797
> jhorn@gmu.edu
> jrhorn424@gmail.com
>
> http://www.failuretorefrain.com/jeff/
>



-- 
Jeffrey Horn
Graduate Lecturer and PhD Student in Economics
George Mason University

(704) 271-4797
jhorn@gmu.edu
jrhorn424@gmail.com

http://www.failuretorefrain.com/jeff/

Re: Texi2dvi: forcing a recompile?

[Joost Kremers]

On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 03:28:30PM -0500, Jeff Horn wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Mike McLean <mike.mclean@pobox.com> wrote:
> >> I solve this with a forced remove:
> >>
> >> (setq org-latex-to-pdf-process (quote ("rm %b.pdf" "texi2dvi -p -b -c -V
> >> %f")))
> >
> > Nice! Very clever. Thanks for the tip! (CC-ing to the list, hope that's OK)
> 
> Small problem: if the file doesn't exist, rm fails with error, which
> stops the process (the PDF file is not produced). This happens if I
> create a new source file in my project.

change "rm %b-pdf" to "rm -f %b.pdf", that should take care of it.

-- 
Dr. Joost Kremers
Georg-August-Universität
Seminar für Deutsche Philologie
Käte-Hamburger-Weg 3
D-37073 Göttingen

Re: Texi2dvi: forcing a recompile?

[Jeff Horn]

Thanks for the help. I'm not really sure what's going on. A PDF file
is produced in my source directory, but not in my output directory. I
receive an error message saying the PDF file was not produced.

I didn't realize the customize menu had many different processes in
the value menu. I wanted something that would run bibtex, and I see
there is a process that runs pdflatex, bibtex, then pdflatex twice
more.

I get the expected result with that process, so I think I'll stick
with it for now.

Thanks for the help,
Jeff

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 03:28:30PM -0500, Jeff Horn wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Mike McLean <mike.mclean@pobox.com> wrote:
>> >> I solve this with a forced remove:
>> >>
>> >> (setq org-latex-to-pdf-process (quote ("rm %b.pdf" "texi2dvi -p -b -c -V
>> >> %f")))
>> >
>> > Nice! Very clever. Thanks for the tip! (CC-ing to the list, hope that's OK)
>>
>> Small problem: if the file doesn't exist, rm fails with error, which
>> stops the process (the PDF file is not produced). This happens if I
>> create a new source file in my project.
>
> change "rm %b-pdf" to "rm -f %b.pdf", that should take care of it.
>
> --
> Dr. Joost Kremers
> Georg-August-Universität
> Seminar für Deutsche Philologie
> Käte-Hamburger-Weg 3
> D-37073 Göttingen
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-- 
Jeffrey Horn
Graduate Lecturer and PhD Student in Economics
George Mason University

(704) 271-4797
jhorn@gmu.edu
jrhorn424@gmail.com

http://www.failuretorefrain.com/jeff/

Re: Texi2dvi: forcing a recompile?

[Mike McLean]

In my case the rm does generate an error, but the process doesn't stop.


On 12/4/10 3:28 PM, Jeff Horn wrote:
> Small problem: if the file doesn't exist, rm fails with error, which
> stops the process (the PDF file is not produced). This happens if I
> create a new source file in my project.
>
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Mike McLean <mike.mclean@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> I solve this with a forced remove:
>>>
>>> (setq org-latex-to-pdf-process (quote ("rm %b.pdf" "texi2dvi -p -b -c -V
>>> %f")))
>> Nice! Very clever. Thanks for the tip! (CC-ing to the list, hope that's OK)
>>
>> --
>> Jeffrey Horn
>> Graduate Lecturer and PhD Student in Economics
>> George Mason University
>>
>> (704) 271-4797
>> jhorn@gmu.edu
>> jrhorn424@gmail.com
>>
>> http://www.failuretorefrain.com/jeff/
>>
>
>