[texworks] latex->dvips->ps2pdf on Windows

T T t34www at googlemail.com
Wed Jun 10 23:23:31 CEST 2009


Joseph, your batch is not going to work. Here's another one:

@latex %1 && dvips "%~dpn1.dvi" && ps2pdf "%~dpn1.ps"

Error checking for arguments can be omitted, since TW will always provide them.

Cheers,

Tomek

On 10/06/2009, Joseph Wright <joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk> wrote:
> David Arnold wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> Has anyone successfully set up Texworks to run latex->dvips->ps2pdf on a
>> windows machine? If so, can you share how?
>>
>> David
>>
>
> Probably easiest to set up a batch file that does the job.  Something like:
>
> @echo off
> if "%1%" == "" goto :error
>
> goto :end
>
> latex %1
> IF ERRORLEVEL 0 (
>   dvips %1
>   ps2pdf %1
> )
> goto L:end
>
> :error
>
> echo.
> echo Please supply a file name
> echo.
>
> :end
> --
> Joseph Wright
>


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