[Mac OS X TeX] Text Editor, spell checker, and TeX engine interoperability

[Michael Goldweber]

<x-flowed>>How does excalibur interoperate with eudora?

Excalibur supports a technology called "Word Services" that first 
showed up in OS 9 (possibly earlier).  In Eudora one can add a Word 
Service (from under the Edit menu).  Select Excalibur and presto an 
item will not be at the bottom of your Eudora Edit menu: Check 
Spelling.  (This is also a keyboard shortcut for this choice as well.)

Selecting this option invokes Excalibur on the body of the message. 
When you are done with Excalibur the altered document is placed back 
in the message window.  (This I believe is done via copying all of 
the buffer to the clipboard, running Excalibur on the clipboard and 
then reversing the process with done.)  My hand never needs to go to 
the mouse to trigger the interoperability in either direction.  (One 
may choose to use the mouse inside of Excalibur though.)

>
>I have hacked up a tex editor from MCL that uses emacs bindings
>and does lots of rather intelligent tex-specific things.  It also
>uses appleevents to synchronize very precisely with the typeset window
>in textures.   So far neither the editor nor textures work with OSX, however.
>
>The tex editor + TeXtures combo is hard to beat, in my opinion.

I know many that share your opinion.  Nevertheless, Textures is not 
OS X ready.  Furthermore it is payware not just shareware.

>mikeyg




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