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TeXShop

TeX previewer with supplemental TeXLive/teTeX distro

Version:  2.26

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Synchronicity

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: pmccann Sunday, September 05 2004 @ 05:33 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: YES

For "synchronicity" (a la Textures) you need to follow the instructions in the readme that comes with TexShop, throwing pdfsync.sty into ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex, for example. After that it's just a matter of using

\usepackage{pdfsync}

in your source file and you can command-click in either source or output to "synch" the two files. That is, jump from a given spot in the source/output to the corresponding place in the output/source respectively. It's working really well now.

For more TexShop fun don't forget to use the "esc" key when entering tex commands: it'll try to complete what you're typing, using the entries that you can see (and modify) via the Format->Completion->Open Completion File... menu item. It works beautifully (as does the macro facility). All in all, quite beautiful!
  
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Synchronicity - thubsch

Yes... however, as I added to my own entry, this implementation
- requires modifying the source code (I hope it is simply ignored by other TeX implementations, accross platforms, and earlier TeXShop versions... we do collaborate), and
- functions with pdf(la)tex, not with the TeX+GhostScript version.
The Textures' implementation required no modification of the source code (whence perfect compatibility), and worked with Textures own previewing engine (which was based on QuickDraw, I believe) that permitted embedding PostScript objects.

Cheers, Tristan

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Friday, September 10 2004 @ 10:08 AM PDT