[OS X TeX] help

[Sam Cox]

On 28-Feb-08, at 4:34 PM, ludwik kowalski wrote:

> 1) Thanks to all who commented on what I posted several days ago.  
> Your messages convinced me not to give up, and to continue learning  
> the Latex language.
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> 2) Using TexShop I am composing an input.tex file. The file is long  
> because I pasted a long text into it. Here what I would like to be  
> able to do (but do not know how). Suppose I select a large number of  
> lines. Is there a command for placing the % sign in front of each of  
> them at once? Then I would select a small set of commands and remove  
> the % from them before pressing the "typeset" button. That would be  
> useful in debugging.

Yes.  Select the text.  In the menu bar click on Source ->  Comment.   
To remove the %, select the text, then click Source ->  Uncomment.


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> 3) Error messages often refer to line numbers. But lines are not  
> numbered. Is there a command like "go to line 123" in TexShop?

Yes.  In the menu bar, click Edit -> Line number ...



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> Thanks in advance.
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> Ludwik Kowalski, a retired physicist
> 5 Horizon Road, apt.2702, Fort Lee, NJ, 07024, USA
> Also an amateur journalist at http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/
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