LaTeX: Commands

Basic TeX-related Unix Commands

acroread //pathtofile/nameoffile

Opens a PDF file.

bibtex

Processes .bib files for use with LaTeX.

clean

Cleans up the .dvi, .aux, .log and other files created by TeX and its relatives in the current directory. See also rmjunk and listjunk.

latex

Processes LaTeX documents.

latex2html

Converts LaTeX documents to HTML.

listjunk

Lists the .dvi, .aux, .log and other files created by TeX and its relatives. rmjunk will then remove these files. These two commands will descend your directory tree, and remove these files in subdirectories. rmjunk is more powerful than theclean command.

rmjunk

Removes the files listed by listjunk

dvips

Converts .dvi files to .ps.

ps2pdf

Converts .ps files to .pdf.

tex

Processes TeX documents.

tth

Converts LaTeX or TeX documents to HTML (works very well on documents which are mostly text. See the tth Manual.

xdvi

Views .dvi files.

gs -sDEVICE=bbox -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH file.ps Calculates the (natural) bounding box of file.ps