[OS X TeX] A Wintel mate to TeXShop

[Alain Schremmer]

Joseph C. Slater wrote:

> A starting point on the mac-tex page:
> http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/TeXonWindows.html
> Joe
> On Sep 22, 2005, at 5:21 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
Sigh …
(It was in fact looking at that page that prompted my request!.)
Maybe I should just go fishing during my office hours.
Grateful regards.
--schremmer

>> Oops. I forgot to mention that I was running TeXShop v1.40, 
>> absolutely plain vanilla i.e. LaTeX and Pdftex as Defaults and 
>> Panther Distiller, on OS X 10.3.9.
>> Regards
>> --schremmer
>>
>> Alain Schremmer wrote:
>>
>>
>>> My schedule this semester means that I will have to spend some time 
>>> in my office at school. So, I thought that I would use these hours 
>>> on my magnum opus. But of course, all I have there is a wintel box. 
>>> So, here is my question: what should I install/do there so that I 
>>> can work on said magnum opus both home and in the office. Is there 
>>> any kind of problem that I should expect or am I just my usual 
>>> paranoid self and I should just download MikTeX and all shall be 
>>> well in the best of all possible worlds?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> --schremmer
>>>
>>> P.S. Below is the preamble of the magnum opus.
>>> %========================================================
>>> % begin PREAMBLE
>>> % begin use packages
>>> \usepackage{color}
>>> \usepackage{colortbl} \usepackage{graphicx}
>>> \usepackage{epstopdf}
>>> \usepackage{float}
>>> \usepackage{pdfsync}
>>> \usepackage{paralist}
>>> \usepackage{amsthm}
>>> \usepackage{amsmath}
>>> \usepackage{amssymb}
>>> \usepackage{array}
>>> \usepackage{amscd}
>>> \usepackage{pifont}
>>> \usepackage{enumerate}
>>> \usepackage{ulem}
>>> \usepackage{calc}
>>> \usepackage{booktabs}
>>> \usepackage{relsize}
>>> \usepackage[cspex,bbgreekl]{mathbbol}
>>> \usepackage{makeidx}
>>> \usepackage{showidx}
>>> \usepackage{bibentry,natbib}
>>> \usepackage{multirow}
>>> \usepackage{fancyvrb}
>>> \usepackage{fancybox}
>>> \usepackage{varioref}
>>> \usepackage{prettyref}
>>> \usepackage{cancel}
>>> \usepackage{askinclude}
>>> % end use packages
>>> \graphicspath{./{Figures/}}
>>> %begin set
>>> \setdefaultenum{\bfseries 1.}{\hspace*{2.pc} \bfseries a.} 
>>> {\bfseries i.}{} %controls asparaenum
>>> \setdefaultleftmargin{5mm}{6mm}{7mm}{8mm}{}{} % controls indent on 
>>> compactitem %end set
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> %begin new commands and environments
>>> %\begin{interitemtext}
>>> \makeatletter
>>> \newcommand{\interitemtext}[1]{%
>>> \begin{list}{}
>>> {\itemindent=0mm\labelsep=0mm
>>> \labelwidth=0mm\leftmargin=0mm
>>> \addtolength{\leftmargin}{-\@totalleftmargin}}
>>> \item #1
>>> \end{list}}
>>> \makeatother
>>> %\end{interitemtext}
>>> \newcommand{\object}[1]{\textbf{\textit{#1}}}
>>> \newcommand{\NUMBER}[1]{\textsc{#1}}
>>> \newcommand{\SUBJECT}[1]{\textsc {#1}} 
>>> \newcommand{\STATEMENT}[1]{\textsc{#1}}
>>> \newcommand{\scbf}[2]{{\bfseries\sffamily #1\textsmaller 
>>> [2]{#2}}\normalfont}
>>> \newcommand{\NewTerm}[1]{\textbf{#1}\index{#1}}
>>> % \newcommand{\NewTerm}[1]{\textbf{#1}\index{#1} \marginpar{#1}}
>>> \DeclareMathAlphabet{\denom}{OT1} {cmss}{sbc}{n}
>>> \normalem
>>> \makeindex
>>> % \labelformat{section}{section~#1}
>>> \newrefformat{sec}{Section~\ref{#1}}
>>> \newenvironment{semantic}{\setdefaultitem{$\spadesuit$} 
>>> {}{}{}\begin{compactitem}}{\end{compactitem}}
>>> \newenvironment{syntactic}{\setdefaultitem{\ding{118}}{} 
>>> {}{}\begin{compactitem}}{\end{compactitem}}
>>> % end use new commands and environments
>>> % begin STYLES
>>> \theoremstyle{plain}
>>> \newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}
>>> \theoremstyle{definition}
>>> \newtheorem{defn}{Definition}
>>> \theoremstyle{remark}
>>> \newtheorem*{note}{Note}
>>> \theoremstyle{remark}
>>> \newtheorem{xpl}{Example}
>>> \bibliographystyle{plain}
>>> % end STYLES
>>>
>>>
>>> %end PREAMBLE
>>> %========================================================
>>>
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