Re: [Orgmode] Re: Bibtex and latex export

[Eric S Fraga]

On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:22:25 -0400, Nick Dokos <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Eric S Fraga <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > : (setq org-latex-to-pdf-process '("sh -x /usr/bin/texi2dvi -p -b -c -V 
> > %f"))
> > 
> > the following is a snippet of the output:
> > 
> > ,----
> > | + echo /home/ucecesf/s/teaching/cape/lectures/matlab.tex+ egrep 
> > ^(/|[A-z]:/)
> > | egrep: Invalid range end
> > | + 
> > command_line_filename=.//home/ucecesf/s/teaching/cape/lectures/matlab.tex
> > | + test -r .//home/ucecesf/s/teaching/cape/lectures/matlab.tex
> > | + error 1 cannot read 
> > .//home/ucecesf/s/teaching/cape/lectures/matlab.tex, skipping.
> > `----
> > 
> 
> What's that '+' sign at the end of the path? 

I think that's "sh -x" indicating a | between commands; it's not
actually in the file name.  Mind you, even if it were part of the file
name, things should work (well, maybe not latex itself...).

> > I don't understand why the egrep is failing although it definitely has
> > something to do with A-z range; if I try the egrep at the shell and
> > use "A-Za-z" instead of "A-z", the command works fine.  Does it work
> > for anybody else on Linux?
> > 
> I'm using en_US.UTF-8  on Ubuntu 8.10 and it seems to work for me.

Interesting.

> The regexp does look funny: there are non-letters included in the
> range and it may be that different versions of egrep are more or less
> strict in checking it. I would change the texi2dvi script to use [A-Za-z]
> and submit a bug report to texinfo.

I think I will do so.  The thing is that the check is very much for
DOS file names so I don't actually care what that part of the regex is
doing!

> You can always change the LOCALE just for the texi2dvi invocation.
> I believe that the following works (untested):
> 
> LANG=C texi2dvi ....
> 
> or maybe
> 
> LC_ALL=C texi2dvi ...

but this may have unexpected side effects?  I'm not sure if any of the
latex suite use the locale...

Thanks again,
eric

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