[OS X TeX] Survey about TeXShop feature use.

[Adam M. Goldstein]

On Jun 30, 2007, at 9:28 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

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> 1)What features of TeXShop do you use? I know we edit source files  
> and compile files, I'm interested in the helpful (or not so  
> helpful?) extras like Panels, Macros (text or Applescript), Command  
> Completion, Auto Completion, Specialized Engines. special keyboard  
> assignments (via System Preferences or other Key Binding methods)  
> that you use to help you in your work. You can also include things  
> like using the BibDesk InputManager for references/citations within  
> TeXShop.
>

I mainly use emacs now, although I mainly used TeX for a few years.

During the extended period during which I used TeXShop as my primary  
editor for TeX files, I used the following features regularly:

- LaTeX panel for math, symbols, section titles, international,  
Matrix panel to set up tables. I wish the panel could be used outside  
of TeXShop and sometimes I will use it when I can't remember how a  
certain accented character is constructed.
- Templates for figures
-  Tags menu to navigate my way around.
- When I first started (see below), the template for the article and  
letter classes.
- The font customization template to see what different fonts look like.
- BibDesk autocomplete.
- Of course, cmd-T for typesetting, and the "typeset" button.
- Spotlight-based syncing.
- The Ogrekit find panel.
- The previewer (as opposed to TeXniscope or something else).


> 2)How long have you been using TeXShop and your experience level  
> (approximate) with using TeX.
>

I started using TeX about 4 years ago for my dissertation. Now I use  
it for almost all my writing, even for the web, by way of latex2html.  
I started with TeX on OS X, with Gerben's i-installer and TeXShop,  
which was the first editor I used with TeX. I would say that I used  
TeXShop mainly when I was a complete TeX beginner to the point at  
which I became a middle-intermediate-level user, where I am now. For  
a while TS had stability problems so I switched away to Smultron,  
which has better text coloring, but then I came back to TS when it  
was better.

-Adam
--
Dr. Adam M. Goldstein
amgoldstein <at> mac <dot> com
http://homepage.mac.com/amgoldstein




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