[OS X TeX] Feature Request Math Bracket

[Adam M. Goldstein]

Smultron has better syntax highlighting than TeXShop---it will  
highlight what's between brackets, and if you miss one, you can see  
that there's more that's "highlit" than there should be. There are of  
course limitations, for instance if you have a bunch of parens stacked  
on one another in a complex math formula.

-Adam

On Mar 12, 2008, at 3:15 PM, Richard J Benish wrote:

> I mean in the Editor. And I should have mentioned also the "braces"  
> that contain arguments for commands, like \frac, superscript and  
> subscript, etc. In the Editor these all get very hard to keep track  
> of.
>
> I'm using TeXShop Version 2.10beta8 (210).
>
> For long equations in which I know I've gotten lost because the file  
> won't render, I sometimes resort to taking a screen shot, printing  
> it and then, with various colored hi-lighters breaking it down to  
> find the error. It would be nice if the colored hi-lighters were in  
> the program.
>
> Thanks for all the help.
>
> Richard Benish
>
>
>
>
>> On Mar 12, 2008, at 1:56 AM, Richard J Benish wrote:
>>
>>> If you would benefit from having the brackets in equations color  
>>> coded or be tagged in some other way so that one can see which  
>>> left goes with which right and immediately find orphan brackets,  
>>> raise your hand.
>>>
>>> I imagine this must have been suggested before, but wow, could I  
>>> use such a feature right now!
>>>
>>> Richard Benish
>>>
>>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> Do you mean color coding in the pdf output or in the Editor? If the  
>> latter, what Editor are you using? Many Editors already have  
>> features that do something, not necessarily color coding, to help  
>> along those lines.
>>
>> Good Luck,
>>
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>>
>>
>>
>>
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