Re: [Texstudio-list] Refactoring command/tool system

[Benito v. d. Z. <be...@be...>]

>      txs:///view-pdf   =>     evince %.pdf
> Why evince? It may not be installed (and, AFAIK, it cannot be installed
> on Mac). Why not internal viewer?
That's just an example. It will import the current viewer settings.

> In some cases it is necessary to remove the nonstopmode in order to
> trace bugs
> in endless loops. This should be possible.
txs:///pdflatex/[-interaction=batchmode] would do that

> I miss the glossaries commands in this list. I think it is
> "makeglossary" (which is a perl script).
>
> And, for indexes, texindy is a modern alternative to makeindex so it
> could be nice to be able to choose between these two commands.
Okay, I will add them.

> Maybe we  could go one step further and provide a generic
> command system.
Actually that's what i plan to do
> - can the logic of more complex commands like quick-build,
Quickbuild will just run the expanded txs:///quick commands one after 
one, (unless a program -- except latex -- returns with an error code, 
then it will stop )
> conditional call of bibliography, rerun latex be correctly defined?
If there are compile commands (i.e. compile/pdflatex/latex) to run 
in/directly, it will call the already existing checks with the new 
syntax. And if necessary, run compile/bibliography/compile before all 
other commands, or rerun compile.

> Maybe a script could be used as a target of the command.
Perhaps later.
As txs:///script/name (although there are no script names yet) and then 
as script trigger ?program:name
> I'm thinking of replacing the somewhat cryptic special chars in the command
> definitions:
I don't think they are cryptic at all.

Except % and @, but those are for Texmaker compatibility...

The letters are just abbreviations for Absolute path (I always wanted to 
add Relative path, perhaps relative to the master file), Middle part and 
Extension.
If you write them out, you have to type more and could just introduce 
typing errors.

> mpost -interaction=nonstopmode ?me) ->
> mpost -interaction=nonstopmode "[filename].[extension]"
>
> "AcroRd32.exe" "?am.pdf"
> "AcroRd32.exe" "[path]/[filename].pdf"
And then you also have to take care, not to forget the separating / 
(shouldn't it be \) and .

Benito