Re: [Vim-latex-devel] New compiler features!

[Luc H. <her...@fr...>]

Hello,

* On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 04:38:03PM -0700, Srinath Avadhanula <sr...@fa...> wrote:
> 2. Automatically handling format dependencies: For example, if you
>    generate pdf documents by first compiling to dvi, then to ps, then
>    to pdf, then latex-suite handles it automatically, if you specify a
>    setting g:Tex_FormatDependency_pdf = 'dvi,ps,pdf'
> http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/documentation/latex-suite/compiler-dependency.html


I read on this page:
> let g:Tex_CompileRule_dvi = 'latex --interaction=nonstopmode $*'
> let g:Tex_CompileRule_ps = 'dvips -Ppdf -o $*.ps $*.dvi'
> let g:Tex_CompileRule_pdf = 'ps2pdf $*.ps'

I'd rather use definitions like:
  let g:Tex_CompileRule_tex_dvi = 'latex --interaction=nonstopmode $*'
  let g:Tex_CompileRule_dvi_ps = 'dvips -Ppdf -o $*.ps $*.dvi'
  let g:Tex_CompileRule_ps_pdf = 'ps2pdf $*.ps'

Why ? Because we may prefer to use systematically pdflatex, but
sometimes, for some documents, we may be interrested in ps2pdf because
some particular packages, like pst-uml, are not compatible with
pdflatex.

So, we may want to bind <c-l>P to tex-[pdflatex]->pdf and <c-l>pdf to
tex->ps->pdf. This way, we have the choice to use one approach or the
other at the last moment, with no need to redefine 4 global variables.

> The latest beta containing the 2 features is available at:
> http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/download/latexSuite-multicompile.tar.gz

I had never spent much time on what &efm should be for makeindex or
bibtex. So, you may need to eventually have a look at this issue.

-- 
Luc Hermitte
http://hermitte.free.fr/vim/