[OS X TeX] Feature Request Math Bracket

[Richard Seguin]

Thanks for the advice!

The autocompletion might work for me for $ ... $ strings because I  
don't use  $$ ... $$ (I generally use \begin{equation*} \tag{} ...  
\end{equation*}). On the other hand, at the moment I"m writing in-line  
math strings at a high density, and if I used the autocompletion I  
would have to right-arrow out of every single one of them when I"m done.

Richard Séguin

On Mar 14, 2008, at 11:46 AM, Ryan Clary wrote:

> Better than a shortcut, you can define an autocompletion (not  
> command completion) which will do the same thing as the shortcut  
> ($#INS#SEL$) but will enter the second $ after typing the first $.   
> I used this for all of my (, {, $, and [.
>
> Ryan Clary
>
> On Mar 14, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 13, 2008, at 9:56 PM, Richard Seguin wrote:
>>
>>> Bracket matching has never been a problem for me. My biggest  
>>> source of errors are unclosed $ ... $ strings. Up until recently I  
>>> was using BBEdit which has an option that colors all characters  
>>> between the $ delimiters in green. This makes it very easy to spot  
>>> the problems, and I made very few of that type of error. I  
>>> switched to the TeXShop editor a couple of weeks ago because a bug  
>>> in the BBEdit syntax coloring having to do with equation  
>>> environments was driving me crazy. (This has been reported to the  
>>> developers who can reproduce it.) Now I'm once again making quite  
>>> a few errors having to do with the closing the $ ... $ strings.  
>>> I've wished for a long time that TeXShop could do the same sort of  
>>> coloring as BBEdit. ...
>>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> You might try to define a macro that inserts $$ and places the  
>> cursor between them: $#SEL##INS#$. Assign that to a convenient  
>> keyboard shortcut. That way you can't get missing pairs. I tend to  
>> use \(...\) most of the time (there are times when that will give  
>> rise to errors---e.g., maths in section headers) and have assigned  
>> that to Cmd-9.
>>
>> Good Luck,
>>
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>>
>>
>>
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