Re: [gedit-list] pdflatex

[Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>]

Il giorno mer, 27/06/2007 alle 15.54 -0400, jkitz verizon net ha
scritto:
> gedit under Ubuntu Feitsy on personal laptop
> 
> Trying to run pdflatex from within gedit, and then display the pdf file
> (evince or acroread)...seems like a simple request...
> 
> I probably don't belong here;

Quite the contrary! You are more than welcome

>  I am an old, stupid ex-WinXP user, new to
> linux, but after a fresh single boot install of Ubuntu 7.04 on Dell
> Inspiron 710m I installed TeXLive 2007 from dvd, and then updated
> tikz/pgf package (1.18) in TDS compliant manner.
> 
> Editing .tex docs in gedit is cool with syntax highlighting; I can
> compile and display .tex docs from terminal. When using the external
> commands plugin I get all kinds of rejection, some of which seems path
> oriented, some is permission, and some is just endless loops:
> 
> Running tool: new-tool
> /home/crow/.gnome2/gedit/tools/new-tool: 6: pdflatex: not found
> Exited: 32512
> 
> I am missing something probably linux oriented. BTW am aware of LaTex
> plugin for gedit, but would like to be able to make simple calls on my
> own first.
> 
> Any help for new and lost? More info needed? Thanks,
> 

Please attach your external tool script so that we can take a look

ciao
	Paolo

> John
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