[OS X TeX] Working with Big LaTeX Projects (was Strange Cursor Behavior)

Joseph C. Slater joseph.slater at wright.edu
Sat Jul 24 21:40:50 EDT 2004


On Jul 24, 2004, at 4:32 PM, Aditya Dushyant Trivedi wrote:

> Thought this needed a new thread.
>
<snip>

>>> Some things I learnt:
>
> 1) Big projects like Books, should be divided in separate files. In 
> case of a book, a convenient division is by chapters. Create a driver 
> file (also called root file, main file, etc.) which is basically the 
> preamble and \include commands.
> 2) For OS X, iTeXMac is my favorite (tried TeXShop, LyX, and Emacs) 
> mainly for the following reasons:
> a) Short learning curve (relatively)
> b) Best pdf synchronization. Allows you to fix errors quickly.

FYI: pdf synchronization works flawlessly (for my book, and other 
shorter documents) between emacs (in x-windows) and iTeXMac as well.

Joe


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