about windvi

[Jody Klymak]

Hi Juan,

The way that emacs does it is
1) you run LaTeX (a few times if need be)
2) you start windvi (using the view feature)
3) you run LaTeX as many more times as you want. As you make changes
windvi automatically redraws.

Since it is only one call to windvi made per LaTeX session, it hardly
seems worth the trouble to automate the opening of windvi in the way
that you are planning.

Cheers

Jody


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fptex@tug.org [mailto:owner-fptex@tug.org]On
> Behalf Of Juan
> I. Montijano
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 12:34 AM
> To: Jody Klymak
> Cc: fptex@tug.org
> Subject: Re: about windvi
>
>
> Hi again,
>
> I am using the last version of fptex together with Winedt.
> This editor has
> really great features and I prefer to keep using it.
>
> What I intend is to have a "typeset" button in Winedt that
> calls a script
> with the following behavior:
>
> "typeset" the document                        (no problem at
> this point)
> if no dvi is generated then exit            (no problem at this point)
> if windvi is already opened then         (how to check this ?)
>      update the display                  (this is done by
> windvi if it is
> not reopened)
> else
>     open windvi for the first time
> endif
>
> This could be done in my script file (but I do not know how to get the
> information in the script about the state, already opened or not, of
> windvi), or well windvi could manage this behavior (but if
> you open it with
> the single instance option, windvi is opened again at the first page).
>
> Any suggestion ?
>
> Thanks,
> Juan Ignacio
>
> Jody Klymak wrote:
>
> > Hello Jaun,
> >
> > I don't know what version of windvi you are using, but
> newer versions
> > automatically update the display if the .dvi file changes.
> They also
> > remain on the same page.
> >
> > BTW have you considered using AUCTeX and emacs?  It handles
> all this for
> > you automatically.
> >
> > Cheers,  Jody
>
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