[Wvware-devel] Re: wvMime

[Dom L. <ci...@ho...>]

>
>Note that I meant this not for translation (for keeping) but for viewing.
>That's why /tmp is being used. Of course translation is a legitimate goal 
>too,
>but a different one. But I want .doc attachments to just show themselves
>without polluting my disk.
Ok, I see what you want. I'll make a few changes and then add this to the 
archive.

>That sounds just fine. What about wvWare? ...we already have wvCleanLaTeX. 
>What
>about wvLyX, ...?
What I want to have is one complex program that accepts a lot of 
command-line arguments, has lots of features, etc... Maybe this will be 
called wvConvert or wvWare. I then plan on having small shell scripts called 
wvHtml, wvPS, wvDVI, wvPDF, wvLatex, and wvCleanLatex. More can be added. 
These scripts are meant to be easy to use and *very* straightforward. wvXXX 
<word file> <output file>

So your wvMime now becomes something like:
#!/bin/sh

#todo: check number of args

#all of the old wvMime functionality
TMPPS="/tmp/${1}-${$}.ps"
wvPS ${1} ${TMPPS}
if [ ${?} != "0" ]; then
  echo "Could not translate into Postscript"
  exit 1
fi

#try gnome ghost-view firs
which ggv
if [ ${?} == "0" ]; then
  ggv ${TMPPS}
fi
# now try plain ghostview
which gv
if [ ${?} == "0" ]; then
  gv ${TMPPS}
else
  # TODO: kde??
  echo "Neither ggv nor gv seem to be installed!"
  exit 1
fi

exit ${?}

>Dom, one more thing: The mailing list wvware-devel. I think it should be 
>mentioned
>on the project web page, and we should use it to document what's going
>on (including discussions like this). It already archives itself so
>people will find it thru the search engines.
It is on the project page and mentioned on wvware.sourceforge.net. It's in 
the paragraph on mailing lists. Maybe I'll make it a little more prominent.

>
>BTW I am supposed to set up a project/CVS for libwmf as well. Would you 
>think
>it could be under the wvware project (I understand that CVS allows multiple
>roots under the same project like wv/, libwmf/, ... )
I'll set this up for you. Do you have a tarball that I can add to the 
repository or should I just create a blank directory for you and let you CVS 
add the necessary files?

Dom
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