Gedit LaTeX plugin: How to get bibtex and makeindex to compile too?

Question

I have been using the Gedit LaTeX plugin for over a year now, but I recently converted my references to bibtex. It is my understanding that the plugin should run bibtex and makeindex automatically, but I have not found that.

I have thesis.tex, so once I have compiled in Gedit I have to run:

bibtex thesis 

and then

makeindex -o thesis.and thesis.adx

Which then produces the final PDF perfectly.

Any ideas on how to integrate this process into the Gedit LaTeX plugin so it happens automatically? It is not that using these commands is difficult (it is not), but that it seems that they should be run by Gedit when they are not.

Just to add: I am running Ubuntu 10.04, Rubber 1.1, Gedit 2.30.3, pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.10-2.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)

Answer 1

Rubber does not work with *.and and *.adx files, and it seems it's not possible to configure it to use them.

However, it is possible to configure Gedit LaTeX plugin to run arbitrary commands within its compilation procedure. So go to Edit -> Preferences -> Plug-ins, select the LaTeX Plugin 0.2 (mine is version 0.2rc3, older versions may behave differently), click Configure Plug-in, in the tab Tools select LaTeX -> PDF, click on Properties. Now you can add commands by typing them into jobs and clicking add. Edit them until you have the following sequence

rubber --inplace --maxerr -1 --short --force --warn all --pdf "$filename"

bibtex $shortname

makeindex -o $shortname.and $shortname.adx

gnome-open "$shortname.pdf"

Now you should compile it normally within Gedit and it should work.

But I have to recommend you to abandon this plugin. The developer has stopped working on it, and there are a lot of outstanding bugs.

Answer 2

I haven't had the best experience with the Gedit LaTeX plugin. So I'm answering based on my Gedit setup.

pdfTeX

What you can use it Gedit's external tools feature (they're found under Tools in the menu) to run pdflatex and bibtex. For example you make a tool for pdflatex on the current document by

#!/bin/sh

pdflatex --shell-escape $GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME

and bind it to a key (I'm using Ctrl+0) for for faster execution.

BibTeX

To run bibtex you can make another tool such as

#!/bin/sh

GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME_ROOT=`echo $GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME | sed 's/\(.*\)\.tex$/\1/'`
bibtex $GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME_ROOT

However, for bibtex I find it more efficient to run it automatically via write18. Just add

\IfFileExists{\jobname.aux}{\immediate\write18{bibtex \jobname.aux}}{}

to the top of your document to do this (don't forget to run pdflatex with the option --shell-escape).

MakeIndex

It should be possible to make a tool to run makeindex this way too. I have never tried it though. Maybe the following will work:

#!/bin/sh

GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME_ROOT=`echo $GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME | sed 's/\(.*\)\.tex$/\1/'`
    makeindex -o $GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME_ROOT.and $GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME_ROOT.adx

Otherwise it might be possible to solve through write18?

Viewing

Also, for viewing your current document in Gedit make a tool for it such as

#!/bin/sh

evince ${GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME%.tex}.pdf

Answer 3

I can recommend the program "Gummi", which uses the same widget as Gedit for the typing, but lets you see the pdf almost instantly as you write and make changes. It also has a mechanism for bibtex. I think it's fantastic. Here are some screenshots: http://gummi.midnightcoding.org/?page_id=4

Answer 4

For the index, use the package imakeidx instead of makeidx. Then you won't need to call makeindex anymore, but have the exact same functionality. See the package documentation for more details.