[OS X TeX] another way to execute perl scripts [was Re: Word spacing / Comparing pdfs in Acrobat]

Jan Anderssen jan at linguist.umass.edu
Thu May 4 14:33:59 EDT 2006


>> If I click on latexdiff, it opens as a text file in BBEdit...

> There used to be a nice 'How to run a Perl script on OS X for  
> Dummies' website at:
> http://www.mactipscafe.com/tip015/

There's also Platypus, which creates clickable applications from  
scripts. I believe that you can set it to pass on files you drop onto  
it as arguments.

http://www.sveinbjorn.org/platypus

Cheers,
Jan

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