[OS X TeX] Misc TeXShop

Maarten Sneep maarten.sneep at xs4all.nl
Mon Mar 9 19:00:41 EDT 2009


On 9 mrt 2009, at 23:52, Richard Koch wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Herbert Schulz wrote:
>>
>> The extra % (%%! rather than %!) is there only because starting a  
>> file with a line beginning with %! is interpreted by (some?)  
>> PostScript printers as the start of a Postscript File. TeXShop just  
>> doesn't care is the extra % is there.
>
> TeXShop also recognizes this syntax with a space between the %  
> and !, as in
>
> 	% !TEX TS-program = luaLaTeX
>
> This is the preferred form because it avoids %% and the  
> controversial %!. In the next version of TeXShop, the "program",  
> "encoding", and "root" macros will produce this form. The old %!TEX  
> and %%!TEX versions will continue to work in the future.

Ah, I'll update my BBEdit script as well.

Maarten



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