[OS X TeX] BBedit and LaTeX

[Richard Seguin]

I think in this case the applescript code assumes that TeXShop  
already has the document open, although it doesn't matter whether or  
not it is the front-most document. (If it isn't the front document,  
it is brought to the front after it is compiled.) Additional code  
would have to be added in order to tell TeXShop to open the document  
before it attempts to compile it. I don't have time at the moment to  
figure out how to do that.

Richard Séguin

On Apr 12, 2007, at 11:01 PM, Thomas Rike wrote:

> I don't know how to write an Applescript, but I copied and pasted  
> the one provided, compliled it, and saved it to the  
> ApplicationsSupport  BBedit folder and get the following error when  
> trying to run it. After the last command TeXShop opens and I get:
>
> TeXShop got an error: NSReceiverEvaluationScriptError:4
>
> It can't seem to find the file. Any ideas on how I can help TeXShop  
> find it.
>
> Thanks, Tom Rike
>
> On Apr 12, 2007, at 7:30 PM, Richard Seguin wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 12, 2007, at 6:50 PM, David Goldenberg wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>    I was wondering if anyone could point me to information about  
>>> using the new version of BBedit (8.6) with LaTeX.  The company  
>>> web page indicates that the new version has lots of new tex- 
>>> related features, but there isn't much documentation for them.
>>>     I would be particularly interested in suggestions for setting  
>>> up scripts to make it easy to process and view LaTeX files from  
>>> BBedit.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David Goldenberg
>>
>> David,
>>
>> The current 8.6.1 version has a little bug with LaTeX syntax  
>> coloring, but the latest beta version for 8.6.2 has fixed that  
>> problem. I can't say for sure when 8.6.2 will be out because I  
>> don't work for the company, but I imagine it won't be long.
>>
>> You can download a demo copy.
>>
>> BBEdit has extensive applescript hooks, and TeXShop isn't bad  
>> either in that respect.
>>
>> Here's an applescript that tells BBEdit to save its front document  
>> and then tells TeXShop to compile it to PDF:
>>
>> tell application "BBEdit"
>> 	set fileName to (file of text window 1) as text
>> end tell
>> set unixname to POSIX path of fileName
>> set oldDelimiters to AppleScript's text item delimiters
>> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "/"
>> -- pull the path out as a string and strip off the filename
>> set pathText to unixname
>> set pathList to (text items of pathText)
>> set docName to last item of pathList
>> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelimiters
>> tell application "BBEdit"
>> 	save text document docName
>> end tell
>> tell document docName of application "TeXShop"
>> 	activate
>> 	latexinteractive
>> end tell
>>
>> Richard Séguin
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