automationbuild-systemfeynmanfeynmfkile
Does somebody know how to teach kile to automatically do the additional steps for compiling Latex documents that contain Feynman diagrams produced with feynmf or feynmp?
For what I know I have to run latex, then run mf title (or for some reason mf '\mode:=localfont;' input title; mpost for feynmp) for every Feynman graph defined with
\begin{fmffile}{title}
% the actual diagram definition
\end{fmffile}
and then run latex again. Can this conveniently be automized in kile?
There's an update to latexmk, v. 4.30a, that solves some problems with using the -output-directory option. I'd recommend upgrading.
Here's a solution that works with v. 4.30a of latexmk:
$out_dir = 'output';
add_cus_dep('mp', '1', 0, 'mpost');
sub mpost {
my $file = $_[0];
my ($name, $path) = fileparse( $file );
pushd( $path );
my $return = system "mpost $name" ;
popd();
return $return;
}
latexmkrc file.
The above code solves the problem of persuading mpost to put its output files in the appropriate directory. The new version of latexmk solves the other problem that on a first run, when the .1 file does not exist, latexmk needed to detect the missing file condition and run mpost.
As far as I can tell, it does not cause a problem that if there are multiple images, mpost generates files with extensions like .NNN, where NNN is an integer. In this situation, there is still a file with extension .1, and this is sufficient to trigger the correct use of mpost.
The CVS version of TikZ contains a graph layout library, which works surprisingly well for this. Here are a couple of your examples. The syntax could be shortened (f instead of fermion, for example), this is just to show the idea:
\graph [spring layout, nodes=coordinate, horizontal'=c to d]
{
c -- [fermion] a,
b --[fermion] c -- [photon] d,
e -- [fermion] d -- [fermion] f;
};
\graph [spring layout, nodes=coordinate, horizontal'=c to d]
{
c -- [fermion] a,
b --[fermion] c -- [gluon] d,
e -- [fermion] d -- [fermion] f;
};
\graph [spring layout, anchor at={(0,-4)}, nodes=coordinate, horizontal'= b to d]
{
a -- [fermion] b -- [fermion] c,
b -- [photon] d -- [left, fermion] e -- [left, fermion] d,
e -- [photon] f -- [fermion] g,
h -- [fermion] f;
};
\graph [spring layout, anchor at={(0,-5)}, nodes=coordinate, vertical= e to f]
{
a -- [fermion] b -- [photon] c -- [fermion] d,
b -- [fermion] e -- [fermion] c,
e -- [gluon] f,
h -- [fermion] f -- [fermion] i
};
There are some issues with decorating curved paths using waves, and the coils decoration sometimes ends with a straight path segment, but that could be fixed.
Here's the complete code (requires lualatex).
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt, border=5mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations, decorations.markings, decorations.pathmorphing, arrows, graphs, graphdrawing, shapes.geometric, snakes}
\usegdlibrary{trees,force, layered}
\pgfdeclaredecoration{complete sines}{initial}
{
\state{initial}[
width=+0pt,
next state=sine,
persistent precomputation={\pgfmathsetmacro\matchinglength{
\pgfdecoratedinputsegmentlength / int(\pgfdecoratedinputsegmentlength/\pgfdecorationsegmentlength)}
\setlength{\pgfdecorationsegmentlength}{\matchinglength pt}
}] {}
\state{sine}[width=\pgfdecorationsegmentlength]{
\pgfpathsine{\pgfpoint{0.25\pgfdecorationsegmentlength}{0.5\pgfdecorationsegmentamplitude}}
\pgfpathcosine{\pgfpoint{0.25\pgfdecorationsegmentlength}{-0.5\pgfdecorationsegmentamplitude}}
\pgfpathsine{\pgfpoint{0.25\pgfdecorationsegmentlength}{-0.5\pgfdecorationsegmentamplitude}}
\pgfpathcosine{\pgfpoint{0.25\pgfdecorationsegmentlength}{0.5\pgfdecorationsegmentamplitude}}
}
\state{final}{}
}
\tikzset{
photon/.style={
decoration={complete sines, amplitude=0.15cm, segment length=0.2cm},
decorate
},
fermion/.style={
decoration={
markings,
mark=at position 0.5 with {\node[transform shape, xshift=-0.5mm, fill=black, inner sep=1pt, draw, isosceles triangle]{};}
},
postaction=decorate
},
gluon/.style={
decoration={coil, aspect=0.75, mirror, segment length=1.5mm},
decorate
},
left/.style={
bend left=90,
looseness=1.75
}
}
\begin{document}%
\begin{tikzpicture}
\graph [spring layout, nodes=coordinate, horizontal'=c to d]
{
c -- [fermion] a,
b --[fermion] c -- [photon] d,
e -- [fermion] d -- [fermion] f;
};
\graph [spring layout, anchor at={(0,-2)}, nodes=coordinate, horizontal'=c to d]
{
c -- [fermion] a,
b --[fermion] c -- [gluon] d,
e -- [fermion] d -- [fermion] f;
};
\graph [spring layout, anchor at={(0,-4)}, nodes=coordinate, horizontal'= b to d]
{
a -- [fermion] b -- [fermion] c,
b -- [photon] d -- [left, fermion] e -- [left, fermion] d,
e -- [photon] f -- [fermion] g,
h -- [fermion] f;
};
\graph [spring layout, anchor at={(0,-5)}, nodes=coordinate, vertical= e to f]
{
a -- [fermion] b -- [photon] c -- [fermion] d,
b -- [fermion] e -- [fermion] c,
e -- [gluon] f,
h -- [fermion] f -- [fermion] i
};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
Best Answer
The following works with
pdflatexand feynmp:If you now call
pdflatexwith the-shell-escapeoption (-enable-write18for MiKTeX), the Metapost file is compiled right after the end of the environment and will be used at the next compilation.NOTE TeX Live 2012 lists
mpostamong the programs that can be run with "restricted shell escape", so the test above can beand
-shell-escapeis not needed any more. Note though that MiKTeX 2.9 doesn't allowmpostin restricted shell escape.For feynmf it's just the same:
Adding
-shell-escapeto the call of (pdf)latex should be easy in Kile.I advise to use feynmp that's easier to manage and produces resolution independent output. Moreover it supports color.
Another way, for older systems, is to open an output stream where to write the necessary shell commands.
At the end of the LaTeX run you'll have a file called as your main file, with extension
.outthat contains the necessary shell commands to run. If the file ismain.texall you have to do is to run from the shell