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

[Tom Koornwinder]

On 05-11-2007 at 08:34 Josep M. Font wrote:

> On 02.11.2007 at 10:02 and at 10:19 Andre Bellaiche wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> [...]
> > 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.
> 
> I would say this is normal TeX(Shop) behaviour, depending on the
> point at which the previous TeX run was aborted. Anyway,
> trashing .aux files will (almost) never hurt.

I asked several colleagues who are regularly working in LaTeX on other
platforms than Mac OS X, so certainly not in TeXShop. They had never
experienced this behaviour.

			Tom Koornwinder

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