Added standalone.sh

README.rst

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Miscellaneous short utilities
 :tags: python, shell
 :author: Roland Smith
 
-.. Last modified: 2018-04-16T22:45:41+0200
+.. Last modified: 2018-05-03T00:22:28+0200
 
 Introduction
 ============
@@ -655,6 +655,13 @@ A utility written in pure Python_ to calculate the SHA-256 checksum of files,
 for systems that don't come with such a utility.
 
 
+standalone.sh
+-------------
+
+Compiles a LaTeX file with the standalone documentclass to Encapsulated
+PostScript format.
+
+
 texfonts.sh
 -----------
 

standalone.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# file: standalone.sh
+# vim:fileencoding=utf-8:fdm=marker:ft=sh
+# Compile a LaTeX standalone document
+#
+# Copyright © 2018 R.F. Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+# Created: 2018-05-02T23:35:27+0200
+# Last modified: 2018-05-03T00:20:21+0200
+
+set -e
+# Discard the tex extension
+NAME=${1%.tex}
+# Verify that it is a standalone document.
+grep '\\documentclass{standalone' ${NAME}.tex || (echo "Not a standalone"; exit 1)
+# Compile and convert the document
+latex -interaction=nonstopmode ${NAME}.tex
+dvips -q -E -j -K ${NAME}.dvi
+# Clean up.
+rm -f ${NAME}.dvi ${NAME}.log ${NAME}.aux
+mv ${NAME}.ps ${NAME}.eps