[OS X TeX] ITeXMaC is great!

[joseph.slater at wright.edu]

>===== Original Message From Mark Guzdial <guzdial at cc.gatech.edu> =====
>I agree that ITeXMaC is lovely: I appreciate all the LaTeX help and the
>flexibility of it.  The downsides I see to it are:
>- The documentation is voluminous, but I can't find what I'm looking
>for.  For example, when I type "{" it inserts "}" with a bullet after.

Tab. This is the behavior of Alpha and, I believe, other editors (Even MS 
Word).

>I think that means that there's something I can type to jump to the
>bullet, but I can't figure it out and I can't find it in the docs.
>- ITeXMaC is set up to use pdftex, which is fine most of the time, but
>I've started using pstricks which don't seem to work in pdftex.  I'll
>bet that there's a workaround for pdftex, and there's probably a way to
>get ITeXMaC to use TeX and Ghostscript (since ITeXMaC is so flexible),
>as TeXshop allows as an option -- but I don't know how and I don't want
>to spend lots of time figuring it out.

TeX:Activate Project:altpdflatex

I agree this could be made clearer. Instead of the word Project, I would use 
the word "Mode" (TeX is already the menu name).

>
>Mark
>
>On Sunday, June 23, 2002, at 05:32  PM, Dorra Francis wrote:
>
>> I am very impressed by the work done to develop TeX applications.
>> I think TeXshop is a very great program but nobody in this list speaks
>> about
>> ITeXMac.
>> There have been new versions whith a lot of very importants stuffs.
>> It is now easy to make your macros and key bindings.
>> A lot of very interesting utilities in the source edition.
>>
>> You can get it at
>> http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/monge/j.laurens/iTeXMac/index.html
>>
>>
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