On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:05:45AM +0100, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
> Enrico Forestieri wrote:
>
> > Secondly, cmd is a command whose arguments are
> > quoted for being processed by a shell, but this is not so. Hence
> > when calling
> >
> > latex 'newfile1.tex'
> >
> > latex is passed the filename 'newfile1.tex' *literally*, and of course
> > only newfile1.tex exists. On Windows it works because double quotes
> > are used and the API functions expect the quotes.
>
> However, removing the quotes does not solve the problem.
Most probably because you have pplatex as a converter. For some reason
it doesn't understand the newly added -max-print-line switch and fails.
When I apply the attached patch, use the attached mylatex script
as the latex->dvi converter and the attached myxdvi script as the
dvi viewer, I am able to see the dvi output.
--
Enrico
Index: src/support/SystemcallPrivate.cpp
===================================================================
--- src/support/SystemcallPrivate.cpp (revision 22100)
+++ src/support/SystemcallPrivate.cpp (working copy)
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
}
process.setReadChannel(QProcess::StandardOutput);
- process.start(toqstr(cmd), QStringList(), QIODevice::ReadOnly);
+ process.start(toqstr(cmd), QIODevice::ReadOnly);
// wait some seconds until the process has started
process.waitForStarted(10 * 1000);
if (waitForFinished) {
#!/bin/sh
args=`echo $* | sed "s/'//g"`
latex $args
#!/bin/sh
args=`echo $* | sed "s/'//g"`
xdvi $args
