gnwiii@gmail.com wrote:
This version runs the ruby scripts directly, rather than the suggested form, e.g., "texfmstart pstopdf.rb file.ps". I have no idea if that is intended to work -- it did in my very simple tests . I'm not sure the RUBYLIB line is needed.
when you use texmfstart to launch a script, no rubylib is needed because libraries are loaded relative to the script; texmfstart itself (now) ships with the libraries that it needs embedded); when using the direct call (ruby <path>/texexec as from your script) should work equally well the reason why i made texmfstart are: - we don't need stubs for all scripts, which is esp handy when scripts bare names that may conflict with other things in ones path - texmfstart internally uses kpsewhich to locate the script (unless it is configured to use its internal kpse library and/or talks to kpse server); it tries hard to cache and carry over results which (depending on the machine and trees uses - large trees slow down kpsewhich) means that nested runs are faster, e.g. when texmfstart is used to start texexec, a nested texexec run starts up faster) - another reason why i made texmfstart is that it makes me less dependent of changes in tds (the change from /context/scripts/ruby to scripts/context/ruby in combination with different kpsewhich fmt flags gave me so much trouble (read: i had to use different stubs depending on what version of tes and kpsewhich were used and they were not always in sync) that i decided that a consistent 'texmfstart ...' stub was safest for me - in the meantime texmfstart does a few more things, like tree initialixation and kpse expansion, think of: texmfstart xsltproc kpse:a.xsl --output=b.xml c.xml which will expand kpse: to the path as reported by kpsehwich. (here i use a mix: when running e.g. from other scripts or from editors i alwayss use "texmfstart scriptname" but when i run in the console i just use scriptname because windows can associate the .rb suffix with ruby (on unix one has to remove the suffix) it's all a matter of what suits best Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------