Re: [PATCH] git-latexdiff: new command in contrib, to use latexdiff and Git

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Tim Haga <timhaga@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> While testing your script on my office machine i discovered that the
> following might be a problem:
>
>> +if [ "$view" = 1 ] || [ "$view" = maybe ] && [ "$output" = "" ]; then
>> +    xpdf "$pdffile"
>> +fi
>
> Xpdf is not installed on all machines (e.g. it's not installed on my
> office machine), so maybe it would be a good idea to use a environment
> variable instead?

Right. I'm squashing this into the next version to allow configuration
(environment variable or --pdf-viewer) and sensible auto-detection:

diff --git a/contrib/latex/git-latexdiff b/contrib/latex/git-latexdiff
index 13aeb9a..85aafda 100755
--- a/contrib/latex/git-latexdiff
+++ b/contrib/latex/git-latexdiff
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ Options:
 	--no-view	Don't display the resulting PDF file
 	--view		View the resulting PDF file
 			(default if -o is not used)
+	--pdf-viewer CMD
+			Use CMD to view the PDF file (default: \$PDFVIEWER)
 	--no-cleanup	Don't cleanup temp dir after running
 	-o FILE, --output FILE
 			Copy resulting PDF into FILE
@@ -46,7 +48,7 @@ verbose_progress () {
 
 verbose_done () {
     if [ "$verbose" = 1 ]; then
-	echo " done."
+	echo " ${1:-done}."
     fi
 }
 
@@ -75,6 +77,10 @@ while test $# -ne 0; do
 	"--view")
 	    view=1
 	    ;;
+	"--pdf-viewer")
+	    shift
+	    PDFVIEWER="$1"
+	    ;;
 	"--no-cleanup")
 	    cleanup=0
 	    ;;
@@ -114,6 +120,28 @@ if [ "$old" = "" ]; then
     exit 1
 fi
 
+verbose "Auto-detecting PDF viewer"
+for command in xdg-open evince okular xpdf acroread; do
+    if [ "$PDFVIEWER" = "" ]; then
+	if command -v "$command" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+	    PDFVIEWER="$command"
+	else
+	    verbose_progress
+	fi
+    fi
+done
+verbose_done "$PDFVIEWER"
+
+case "$view" in
+    maybe|1)
+	if [ "$PDFVIEWER" = "" ]; then
+	    echo "warning: could not find a PDF viewer on your system."
+	    echo "warning: Please set \$PDFVIEWER or use --pdf-viewer CMD."
+	    PDFVIEWER=false
+	fi
+	;;
+esac
+
 if [ "$main" = "" ]; then
     printf "%s" "No --main provided, trying to guess ... "
     main=$(git grep -l '^[ \t]*\\documentclass')
@@ -212,7 +240,7 @@ if [ "$output" != "" ]; then
 fi
 
 if [ "$view" = 1 ] || [ "$view" = maybe ] && [ "$output" = "" ]; then
-    xpdf "$pdffile"
+    "$PDFVIEWER" "$pdffile"
 fi
 
 if [ "$cleanup" = 1 ]; then

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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