[OS X TeX] TeXShop on a MacBook

[Gary L. Gray]

On Mar 12, 2006, at 8:24 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote:

>
> On Mar 12, 2006, at 17:12 , Gary L. Gray wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 12, 2006, at 8:00 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 12, 2006, at 16:20, Justin C. Walker wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a weird problem with TeXShop.  I am running on a MacBook,  
>>>> with what claims to be 2.0.9a of TeXShop, gotten from the MacTeX  
>>>> download (the BIG one) less than a week ago.
>>>>
>>>> I have the OgreKit find panel selected.
>>>>
>>>> It appears that the "ignore case" selection is ignored (ironic,  
>>>> I know).  If I search for, say "proof", it will find instances  
>>>> of "proof", but not of "Proof".  I have quit, restarted, opened  
>>>> and closed the find panel, checked and unchecked the "ignore  
>>>> case" box, but this doesn't alter the outcome.
>>>
>>> I don't have a MacBook Pro, but I'm curious as to whether you've  
>>> tried converting it to ppc-only with lipo and testing?  Or isn't  
>>> there a way to force an application to launch using Rosetta?   
>>> That might narrow down the list of possible problems.
>>
>> Excellent suggestion!
>>
>> I just opened TeXShop using Rosetta and it does not exhibit this  
>> unusual behavior. That is, it honors the "ignore case" and finds  
>> strings starting with a backslash without the "Regular  
>> Expressions" option checked.
>
> That's really interesting.  I guess it's either a Rosetta problem  
> or there's something funky going on in the OgreKit code that  
> Rosetta can't "fix" (like big-endian assumptions about how  
> characters of a string lie in memory).
>
> It's worth a bug report, probably from Richard or the OgreKit folks.

Actually, it must be a problem with the Intel code since running as  
PowerPC under Rosetta seems to fix it.

I submitted a bug report to the TeXShop project on SourceForge at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/texshop/

and I know that Dick reads this list so hopefully someone will see it.

-- Gary


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