Re: [Vim-latex-devel] Re: Review of vim-latex status

[Srinath A. <sr...@fa...>]

Well, at least one issue seems to be decided upon. The diacritics will
go!

Your scheme seems quite excellent! I think the latter suggestion of
making specific functions such as Tex_Convert_{from}_to_{to} and then
calling these from a central Tex_Compile() function (the dependency
engine) which uses options such as:

" Dependency definitions
" for tex -> dvi -> ps -> pdf
g:Tex_dvi_dependsOn = 'tex'
g:Tex_ps_dependsOn = 'dvi'
g:Tex_pdf_dependsOn = 'ps'
" Compilation rules.
g:Tex_CompileRule_dvi = 'latex \nonstopmode \input{$*}'
g:Tex_CompileRule_ps = 'dvips -Ppdf $*'
g:Tex_CompileRule_pdf = 'ps2pdf $*'

is the best way to go... The Tex_Convert_tex_to_dvi and
Tex_Convert_tex_to_pdf can both use another function Tex_Convert_tex
with a few changed options... The Tex_Convert_tex can be a special
function which also runs the makeindex, bibtex etc as needed.

Maybe I will get around to it when I next get time... As of now, I am
still fixing little bugs here and there... If you are interested, you
could get access to our CVS treee...

On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Luc Hermitte wrote:

> 6. Sometimes, I'd like some feedback about the last improvments I made
>    in mu-template. But before, I must found some time to finish to write
>    the documentation and to definitively fix the funky-characters issue.
>    The big last improvment concerns the possibility to hit for instance:
>    '\tab^R<SPACE>' which pops up a dialog box asking for which
>    template-file we wish to expand (here: tabular, tabeqnarray, etc)
>

Well, as of now latex-suite does this in 2 ways. If the user presses the
<F5> key on an empty line, then it prompts him to insert an environment
from amongst a list. (This idea is from auctex.vim) It also supports
"custom macros". These are basically files in the latex-suite/macros/
directory. Your feature could be implemented as:

inoremap <C-x>t    <C-r>=Tex_ReadCustomMacro()<CR>

This pops up a prompt asking the user to choose from the files found in
the macros/ directory and asks the user to choose one. This is then read
in. The file can contain optional placeholders etc...

Srinath