devoir 0.1.1

Quickly set up a working environment to edit a file.

When editing a LaTeX file, I want the file being edited with vim, the compiled file displayed using a pdf viewer, and latex being run whenever something changes, using latexmk. But wait, there is more.

• I often start a LaTeX document by copying an existing one, as a template.

• The pdf file may or may not exist when I start working: if I have already been working on this file before, the pdf file exists; if not, it does not exists, and my pdf viewer won’t start on a non-existing file.

This program aims to automate all this process. I built it to process LaTeX files, but it should work with other files too.

What’s new?

See changelog.

Download and install

See the end of list for a (quick and dirty) Debian package.

• From sources:

  • Download: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/devoir

  • Install (in a virtualenv, if you do not want to mess with your distribution installation system):

    python3 setup.py install

• From pip:

  pip install devoir

• Quick and dirty Debian (and Ubuntu?) package

  This requires stdeb to be installed:

  python3 setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb
  sudo dpkg -i deb_dist/devoir-<VERSION>_all.deb

Documentation

• The compiled documentation is available on readthedocs

• To compile it from source, download and run:

  cd doc && make html