1

... strange question you will think and you are right, but there are some features, that are not shown in the PDF-Viewer from TeXworks, tooltips for example.

I tried this rule, which executes an arbitrary commandline-order. I added the last line!

!config
# Console rule for arara
# author: Clemens Niederberger
# requires arara 3.0+
identifier: console
name: Console
command: <arara> @{command}
arguments:
- identifier: command
  flag: <arara> @{parameters.command}
  default:  <arara> @{getBasename(file)}.pdf

It did not have success:

Running Console... 


I'm sorry, but the command from the 'Console' task could not be
found. Are you sure the command 'testfile.pdf' is correct, or even
accessible from the system path?
C:\texlive\2013\bin\win32\runscript.tlu:650: command failed with exit code 1:
java.exe -jar c:/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/scripts/arara/arara.jar testfile.tex --verbose --log
doncherry
  • 54,637
cis
  • 8,073
  • 1
  • 16
  • 45
  • 2
    The error is pretty clear, isn't it? You haven't specified a command at all. You've just tried to execute the name of the pdf. Since testfile.pdf is not a command on your system, arara rightly complains that it cannot find it. You need to give it the command for starting Adobe reader. That is, how would you open testfile.pdf in Adobe reader from the command line? I can't tell you this as I don't know. On GNU/Linux, I'd use acroread testfile.pdf. You need to figure out the command for your system. – cfr Jul 04 '14 at 23:32
  • Mmmh, normaly start is the windows-order to open a programm. It does not work, mmmh. – cis Jul 05 '14 at 01:24
  • 1
    Get it working without arara first - just from the command line. Once you know the command, then you will know at least what you need the arara rule to do. If you don't know that, it will be hard to get it to do it. – cfr Jul 05 '14 at 02:02
  • 1
    Does this answer help at all? Note that I know less than nothing about Windows so I won't know if something looks crazy weird... – cfr Jul 05 '14 at 02:39
  • Ah, I see - I will read this answer tomorow in detail. – cis Jul 05 '14 at 04:39

1 Answers1

3

Ok, we could do it this way ("but"...)

% arara: console: { command: cmd /c start FILE.pdf}

This is for windows, I am sure, there is an analogon for Linux.

This works, that means it opens the AdobeReader, "but" it gives:

! I can't write on file `FILE.pdf'.
(Press Enter to retry, or Control-Z to exit; default file extension is `.pdf')
Please type another file name for output:

I do not know, what I could do better here. So I think, the authors should assume it ;)

PS: Use the original console-rule for this:

!config
# Console rule for arara
# author: Clemens Niederberger
# requires arara 3.0+
identifier: console
name: Console
command: <arara> @{command}
arguments:
- identifier: command
  flag: <arara> @{parameters.command}
cis
  • 8,073
  • 1
  • 16
  • 45
  • 1
    'ello! I'll take a look later on today. Stay tuned. :) – Paulo Cereda Jul 05 '14 at 16:59
  • 1
    In GNU/Linux, you'd just need a rule which would execute acroread with filename.pdf as the sole argument. It is quite straightforward since you use a command to start the application anyway. (You may wrap it in fancy ways to make clicking icons or selecting from a menu execute the command, but you are basically executing the command.) I just have no idea how to translate this to Windows! – cfr Jul 05 '14 at 21:02