[OS X TeX] new editor OcTeX.app

[stephenmoye at cox.net]

---- William Adams <will.adams at frycomm.com> wrote: 
> Available here:
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> http://www.octet.se/downloads.jsp
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> Looks interesting, but has some strange bugs (I get two Help menus)
> 
> William
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> -- 
> William Adams
> senior graphic designer
> Fry Communications
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It does indeed look promising -- I like the split window with code on one side and typeset copy on the other. I can think of some people here at work who would respond very well to the Symbols window. I was also pleased to see that the program also knew about the MacTeX installation. But...

So far, it is extremely buggy. Using the Build>Build Command Editor is useless. Even though the Preferences show that OcTeX knows to look in /usr/texbin for latex, running it from the Build menu gives an error message saying that it can't find latex. Using '/usr/texbin/latex in the Command Editor gives another error message. Multiple attempts to use this function lead to the program quitting.

Still, I am looking forward to future versions of this program.

Stephen Moye


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