Re: [Vim-latex-devel] View document in another directory

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

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Luc Hermitte wrote:

> I'm trying to configure g:Tex_ViewRule_html.
> The situation is that into the current directory I have a file foo.tex
> and that I use TeX4HT to generate several HTML pages into
> the subdirectory ./html/
>

Okay, this seems like a reasonable thing to want latex-suite to do by
default. I just looked at compiler.vim and it turns out that I use
something like:

    :let execString =3D '!start '.s:viewer.' "'.mainfname.'.'.s:target.'"'
    :exec execString

(here s:viewer =3D Tex_ViewRule_html and s:target =3D 'html')

But I think it would have been better to use the strategy for
Tex_CompileRule_dvi. Basically something like:

    :let _mp =3D &mp
    :let &mp =3D Tex_ViewRule_dvi
    :exec 'make '.mainfname


This way you could have set Tex_ViewRule_html to something like

    :let Tex_ViewRule_html =3D '!start cygstart html/$*.html'

and have things work OOTB.

Maybe have a seperate setting in addition to Tex_ViewRule_html? Something
like Tex_ViewRuleComplete_html which if exists takes precedence over
Tex_ViewRule_html?


> Playing with cygstart, I found out that =AB$PWD/html=BB was the argument =
I
> was looking for.
> Unfortunatelly, while
>     :!cygstart $PWD/html/ "foo.html"
> works very well,
>     :!start cygstart $PWD/html/ "foo.html"
> does not. :(
>
As a hack in the while it takes me to modify latex-suite, why don't you
make a little scriptlet which calls cygstart the way you want it to?
It would be a solution for the time being... Something like

#!/usr/bin/bash

cygstart $PWD/html/$*


and then point Tex_ViewRule_html to it...

> BTW, I have a request: I'd like an option to disable the default opening
> of the preview windows as the quickfix windows is enough for me 99% of
> the time.
>

This should also be an easy thing to modify. I'll put it on the TODO.

--=20
Srinath