[Mac OS X TeX] BBEdit 6.5 & OzTeX 5.0b7

[Ingo Reich]

Am Donnerstag den, 24. Januar 2002, um 20:39, schrieb Michael Goldweber:

>> Hi,
>>
>> thanks, that did it! I don't know why, but it works. Unfortunately, 
>> this didn't, at the same time, solve the problem with the OzTeX 
>> plug-in (I hoped so). Any ideas? Is there something equivalent 
>> available for Pepper?
>
> If by equivalent, you mean a way to invoke OzTeX from Pepper on the 
> current file, there is.  I believe that it was posted to this list a 
> while back.

Yes, with "equivalent" I basically meant "identical functionality".

>
> Put the following two lines in a file.  Call the file whatever you wish 
> (e.g. OzTeX).  Place this file in the Extensions folder which is in the 
> same directory as the Pepper application.  Relaunch Pepper. (The lines 
> below make assumptions regarding the location of the OzTeX application; 
> edit accordingly.
>
> ---------------
> #!/bin/tcsh
> open -a "/Applications/OzTeX/OzTeX" $PEPPER_CURRENT_FILE
> --------------
>
> Pepr is the code to use in the OzTeX local config file to specify 
> Pepper as your editor.  (Same arcane rules apply - set it from OS 9 for 
> the change to work.)

Thanks for your suggestion. Maybe I should indeed try Pepper, at least 
till the plug-in is carbonized or Alpha X is released. As Tom Kiffe 
suggested, I will try to contact Francois Ladouceur and ask him to 
carbonize his plug-in. (This doesn't seem to be so easy, however, since 
I get permanent fatal errors with his e-mail address 
"francois.ladouceur at anu.edu.au".) If I get feedback, I'll report on this 
on this list.

>
> To summarize:
> Pepper:
> 	Works well with OzTeX, has a nice TeX mode (via the accelerator), 
> but does not play well with Excalibur (or any other spell checker).  
> The above may also work for CMacTex, though I have not tried it.  (The 
> above Pepper extension support does not work with Excalibur - I tried.)
>
> BBedit
> 	Works well with CMacTex, does not have a TeX mode (the glossary 
> feature does not match Alpha's nor Pepper's support), but plays well 
> with Excalibur.  No working plug-in support for OzTeX.
>
> Alpha
> 	Under OS 9: Works well with OzTeX, CMacTex, and Excalibur. Has a 
> good TeX mode.  None of its variants work under OS X. (Hopefully 
> AlphaTK will, as soon as the aquaTK package matures.)

It's a pity that there isn't one editor that (i) has a really nice tex 
mode (like that in Alpha) AND (ii) supports excalibur, eudora etc. AND 
(iii) integrates smoothly with OzTeX/ TeXShop/teTeX AND (iv) enables one 
to re-open a changed pdf-file at the same page (like only (?) 
MacGhostView_OSX does) within TeXShop, isn't it? I'm really looking 
forward to the OSX version of Alpha!

>
> ---
> Non TeX question:  Does Eudora support the use of an external editor? 
> (Alpha "supports" Eudora, which is a different perspective.)

Sorry, no idea.

Ingo

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