[ Feature Request #1943 ] using ps2pdf with winefish

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Date:
2006-Mar-06 19:10   Priority:
5
Submitted By:
rquint  Assigned To:
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Category:
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Summary:
using ps2pdf with winefish

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Date: 2006-Mar-14 15:23
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many thanks for trying winefish.

below a very quick reply ( i have to offline right now)

* toolbars: i am the only developer of winefish. supporting
toolbars make me tedious. so i dropped it. I almost hate
toolbars.

* for the trouble ps2pdf: what is the version of your
winefish? the current version for ubuntu may be too old.

within winefish 1.3.2-RC2, there iss now problem. you may
add the psp2df tool like that: ps2pdf '%B.ps'

* autocompletion: within winefih-1.3.2-RC2 you may turn off
easily by turning off the menu "Document/AutoCompletin". For
global setting, put "0" value in the "AutoCompeltion" Field
for file type.

For further discussion could you use the forum:
http://winefish.berlios.de/forum
?

Thank you very much.

Goood luck!



Date: 2006-Mar-06 19:10
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Hi,

I'm an old DOS->Windows user who is trying to convert
to Linux (I'm
using Ubuntu 5.10 and teTeX as it comes out of the
box). One necessary
tool is a simple [La]TeX editor which I can use as a
TeX shell too.
Winefish appears to fit the bill, but I have run into
one real problem.
I also have a few requests that may or may not fit into
your plans for
Winefish. 

The problem is that my choice of workflow from .tex
file to .pdf file is

TeX -> dvips -> ps2pdf 

instead of directly using pdfTeX. (I have a huge number
of class notes
that are designed with this in mind. I'm also a sort of
dinosaur using
TeX instead of LaTeX.) However I have been unable to
figure out how to
integrate ps2pdf into Winefish. It won't work as a
command in the
*LaTeX*box since it is a script that calls other
scripts before calling
executing ghostscript (and Winefish freezes or crashes
when I call it, 
perhaps it's the multiple error codes returned by the
multiple scripts)
and I can't directly call ghostscript because I don't
see anyway to
dynamically set the output file's name without a
calling script. It also
won't work as a Utility and Filter since the %B
variable only works in
*LaTeX*box commands.


Now for a couple of feature requests if I may.  

1) Would it be possible to have a button bar for some
of the commands in
the External menu, with the image on the button face
from an external
image file (say assign a button for TeX with the image
lion.png located in
$HOME/.winefish, or /usr/share/winefish or some other
subdirectory)? 

2) How can you turn off command completion?
Alternatively can the user
select a different words file without having separate
files that are
renamed before winefish is run. I can create scripts to
do this but then
I have to figure out how to integrate them into Gnome
for the right
click menus. I would like to see different sets of
commands when writing
plain TeX, when writing a plain TeX file with a package
like PiCTeX and
when writing a LaTeX file.

Thanks for the nice work you've done,

Richard Quint