<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear MacTeX Users,<br><br>I am a new member of this mailing list, so please forgive me if this question came up before. I switched to Mac about a month ago, previously using Windows (and Linux for the real stuff like astrophysical simulations). I am very happy with this decision and I also managed to get almost everything running in a similar or better way than before.<br><br>However, I have one specific question concerning a reasonable editor for LaTeX. Under Windows, there is an excellent software called WinEdt, which has one special feature I really need and which I could not find thus far for any editor available under MAC: read-and-write translations. This means that when a file is read from the disk, a certain combination is replaced and displayed with another one. For example, in the ASCII file on the disk there is a text passage "r{\'e}sum{\'e}e". The translation mechanism recognizes {\'e} and converts it into é, producing a résumée in WinEdt. This has the big advantage that the text is readable, spell checking is possible and at the same time, the ASCII file is really platform independent (since it contains only non-special characters). When typing with a French keyboard in WinEdt, I can also use the special characters such as é, which makes typing very fast. The internal translation mechanism converts é back to {\'e} when saving the file on the disk. Along with that, WinEdt provides perfect support of LaTeX features like an IDE and has a very convenient spellchecker. If, by hazard, anyone knows an editor capable of that, please tell me. I am also willing to pay for it in case it is shareware (so is WinEdt). Thank you!<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Dominikus<br><br>--<br>Dr. Dominikus Heinzeller<br>Institute for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics<br>University of Kiel, Germany<br>email: <a href="mailto:dominikus@heinzeller.eu">dominikus@heinzeller.eu</a><br>cell: +49-170-7744149</body></html>