[OS X TeX] final tex live 2007

[Alain Schremmer]

Gary L. Gray wrote:

>
> On Feb 21, 2007, at 11:44 AM, Alain Schremmer wrote:
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>> Peter Dyballa wrote:
>>
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>>> Am 21.02.2007 um 16:43 schrieb Alain Schremmer:
>>>
>>>>>> How does this mesh with the above? Specifically: if I upgrade via 
>>>>>> MacTex now, while still on 10.3.9, what will happen when I 
>>>>>> upgrade to 10.4.x?
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Some Mac OS X applications and utilities will change. You'll gain 
>>>>> widgets.
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I meant only "with respect to TeXShop?
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>>> Yes, I was not precise here, too: you'll be able to use TeXShop 2! 
>>> It is based on some new PDF framework (PDFKit) that enables nice 
>>> things with hyperref
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>>
>> I got burnt with hyperref so I don't care about that.
>
>
>
> That may be, but the new TeXShop also offers much nicer syncing 
> between the source and the preview. On the 600+ page book we are 
> writing, this has proven to be invaluable. 

>>> More advantages: synching based on searching strings in PDF
>>
>>
>> That is good. Does the synching also go from source to pdf? Just 
>> curious as I am quite happy with synching from pdf to source since it 
>> works with included files.
>
>
> Yes, it goes both ways.

I am at about 800 pages of "pieces" that can be configured variously so, 
yes, synching is invaluable.

>>> Disadvantages: seems to be more buggy ...
>>
>>
>> That is I thought I would wait some more.
>
>
> It has been my experience that it is equally buggy -- no more, no 
> less. :-)

Yes, occasionally, 1.43 does funny things, but it has never done 
anything Â… memorable, like losing a day's worth of modifications and 
changes on some 300 pages which I had failed to back up as I went. (MS 
Word did that to me but as a result I backup religiously.)

>> Does this really mean that, with TeXShop 1.43 I can first upgrade to 
>> Tiger and then, a while after that, upgrade to TeXShop 2? (My 
>> somewhat frailed nerves may not take two upgrades at once.) Really, 
>> my main worry is how much I will have to modify the magnum opus (over 
>> 20,000 files including .aux etc and graphic files but still a lot of 
>> .tex files.)
>
>
> You should be able to move to the new TeXShop with no changes to your 
> source files (except maybe the %!TEX root commands at the top of 
> source files).

And what would the change be? (Got a lot of those.) I recall some 
discussion about this but not that it had come to a conclusion.

Best regards
--schremmer

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