[OS X TeX] Who Wrote These, Please?

[David Watson]

On Oct 15, 2004, at 6:29 PM, Matthew Hills wrote:

> Claus, thanks for forwarding the scripts you use with BBEdit.
>
> I put together a script to open a file based upon the current text  
> selected in TeXShop or iTeXMac.
>
>      http://tina.stanford.edu/~hills/Tidbits/
>
> The behavior is similar to the "Open selection" menu item in  
> iTeXMac, except that the file extension is not required.  e.g., you  
> can select "report" in "\documentclass[12pt]{report}" and the  
> script will open "report.cls" from the teTeX search path.
>
> If the file extension is not specified, the script looks for the  
> text just before the selection to try and find tell-tale tags like  
> "\bibliographystyle" that would suggest what file extension to use  
> (".bst" in this case).  I welcome any feedback on suggestions for  
> how to expand the list of important tags (I currently have  
> \includeonly, \include, \input, \bibliographystyle, \bibliography,  
> \usepackage, \documentclass, and \includegraphics).
>
> Also, I put in a hack to help me with opening files that exist  
> outside the teTeX tree.  For example, I keep all my figures for a  
> document as PDFs in a subdirectory of my document directory named  
> "./figs".  Secondly, I define my own latex macro to set the  
> graphics (this is an example, mine is much uglier):
>         \newcommand{\myfig}[1]{ \includegraphics{figs/#1}}
> Then I could add a record to the file_extension_map property of the  
> script:
>          {tag:"\\myfig", extension:".pdf", prefix:"figs/"},
> So that selecting "smiley" in "\myfig{smiley}" would then be able  
> to open a window to show "./figs/smiley.pdf"
>
> As always, let me know of any suggestions, or you find any errors    
> (I really appreciated Will's suggestion to use kpsewhich for my  
> earlier scripting endeavors for bibliographic citations, and I also  
> appreciated error reports that uncovered faulty assumptions I was  
> making based upon how I structure documents in latex...).
>
> Matt
>
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