[OS X TeX] Re: Save date-time, not Print date

[Paul Smyth]

Why not just hard-code the date in the document?

On 5 Jan 2007, at 20:24, Alain Schremmer wrote:

> Paul Smyth wrote:
>
>> On 5 Jan 2007, at 19:35, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>>
>>> While I am still not sure that what I got I got straight, it  
>>> seems  to me that the inescapable conclusion is that I should get  
>>> rid of  my bad habit to typeset rather than open pdfs in Preview.  
>>> So I will  file a request for TeXShop to have a button [Open pdf]  
>>> in the toolbar.
>>
>>
>> Cmd-1 will open the pdf from the source document.
>
> It certainly does and I certainly didn't know :-[ .
>
> Here is the request to TeXShop as I just filed it:
>
>    A button [Open pdf] in the toolbar of an open source that would  
> open
>    the pdf without recompiling the source.
>
>    Actually, I just realized that things are a bit more complicated
>    since, when I open a source, the pdf opens with it.
>
>    So, what I really would like is:
>
>    - when the pdf has been closed, for [Open pdf] to reopen it (rather
>    than having to go through Open for Preview in the File menu)
>
>    - when there is no pdf, for [Open pdf] to create a pdf with the  
> date
>    of the last modification rather than the current compilation date.
>
> So, when there is an exsting pdf, [Open pdf] would merely do what  
> Cmd-1 already does. However, there is the more complicated issue  
> when there is no already existing pdf.
>
> Grateful regards
> --schremmer
>
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