[OS X TeX] Re: [OSX-TeX] Feature Request Math Bracket

[Robert Blackstone]

>
> On Mar 12, 2008, at 5:17 AM, Joseph C. Slater PE, PhD wrote:
>
> > On Mar 12, 2008, at 2:56 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.
> >>
> >
> > Like Emacs/Aquamacs does?
>
> Yeah, or TextMate also.
>
> Both of these programs will also automatically insert a closing
> bracket when you insert the opening one, btw, so the chances of
> orphaned brackets go down.
>

For what it's worth: there exists a small utility, or rather a Preference
Pane, called AutoPairs, freely downloadable from
http://www.jwwalker.com/pages/autopairs.html
which does the same, not only for all types of brackets but also, if
desired, for quotes. It works perfectly in Tiger for most applications, the
only exceptions I found on my system up till now being MS Word and
Spotlight.

Robert Blackstone
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