[OS X TeX] TeXShop features I would like to correct (or have corrected)

[André Bellaïche]

Le 2 nov. 07 à 10:02, André Bellaïche a écrit :

> Some TeXShop features I would like to correct before switching to  
> Leopard:
>
> 1. When TeXShop gets into an error, because of a undefined macro,  
> e.g., most of the time, after correcting the error, I have to Abort  
> and Trash Aux Files before typesetting again. If I don't do it, I  
> get into an immediate error.
>
> Some people tell me they never get intot this TeXShop behaviour, so  
> I think it may be due to incorrect TeXShop Preferences on my computer.
>
> 2. When there is an error in an input file, or in a .sty file, and  
> you press the button Goto Error, TeXShop takes you to a line which  
> has the same line number as the the line where the error actually  
> happened, but which is in the root file!
>
> 3. (Similar to 2). TeXShop can correctly detect minor errors, as a  
> { or \begingroup with no matching } or \endgroup, it displays the  
> number of the line where the error has occured, but not the name of  
> the file! You can find it out by checking all the files used, but  
> this is not so easy if you have five .sty custom files and ten  
> chapters.
>
> A typical error message is:
>
> (\end occurred inside a group at level 1)
>
> ### simple group (level 1) entered at line 274 ({)
> ### bottom level
>
> André Bellaïche
> Université Paris 7
> Département de mathématiques

In case 1, a typical error message is:

Runaway argument?
! File ended while scanning use of \@writefile.
<inserted text>
                 \par
l.110 \begin{document}

The immediate cause is an unfinished line in the .aux file, as:

\@writefile

without arguments.

André



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