[OS X TeX] Replace LaTeX????

[Simon Spiegel]

On 15.02.2005, at 09:50, Joachim Kock wrote:
> Perhaps you should have a look at AlphaX?
>
>    http://www.maths.mq.edu.au/~steffen/Alpha/AlphaX/
>
> Alpha's LaTeX mode is very powerful, with everything you can dream of 
> in
> terms of completions, document navigation, interaction with bibtex 
> files,
> syntax colouring, auto-indentation, comment handling, etc, and it has 
> some
> unique features like typeset-the-selection, compile-automatisation, and
> smart error-browsing.  Integration with tetex and previewers is very
> smooth.
>
> In general Alpha is just as powerful as emacs when it comes to
> customisation: it is easy to set up precisely the keybindings you 
> want, or
> implement new functionality by writing your own scripts.  Also, like in
> emacs, you can drive other unix applications (e.g. you run maxima as a
> subprocess of Alpha, or send email by smtp over a socket, and such 
> geeky
> things).  But at the same time Alpha has always been a Mac editor, and 
> its
> interface is much more Mac-like than emacs'.  You can also do things I
> think it would be difficult to do in emacs, like controlling iTunes or
> read-write interaction with the Addressbook.
>
>
>

I'm sure this is trivial but… Does Alpha support collapsing footnotes, 
and if so how do you activate it. I've been playing around with it now 
and could't find this…

simon
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