How to pass options to latex compiler using rubber?

Question

Gedit with latex plugin is a great tool for working with latex. However I need to modify standard tool which is is just a call of rubber. I would like to have possibility to to use inverse search. To this end I need to pass -src option to latex compiler and I do not know if it is possible with rubber.

Answer 1

From a rubber's launchpad bug site:

Actually, there is already a way to do that, although I admit it is not very well documented. From the command line, you can do

$ rubber -c 'setlist arguments --shell-escape' -d foo.tex

Alternatively, you can make this automatic in your document by including a comment line that says

% rubber: setlist arguments --shell-escape

As you can guess, this "arguments" variable can be used to pass arbitrary arguments to the compiler. The complete list of such variables and directives is in the info documentation.

Answer 2

I have used the following kludge. In my case I wanted to always pass certain additional options to bibtex. Therefore I created the following script and saved it as ~/bin/bibtex:

#! /bin/sh
exec /usr/texbin/bibtex -min-crossrefs=999 "$@"

Then I made sure that ~/bin is in my PATH before /usr/texbin. That's all. Now rubber (and all other tools that invoke bibtex) have the right parameters set.