[OS X TeX] Wanted: editor with special skills

[Dominikus Heinzeller]

Dear all,

thanks for your messages. I used the utf8 encoding as kind of  
workaround already, but I guess it's the most convenient way. Smultron  
unfortunately does not provide the functionality of read-and-write  
translations. Your arguments are, of course, reasonable, but you are  
loosing the 100% platform compatibility of the TeX file. Believe it or  
not, there are still colleagues working with such old systems that  
they are not able to read utf8 encodings properly. But I guess they  
have to scope with that...

Thanks again,

Dominikus

On Oct 1, 2008, at 5:08 PM, Martin Berggren wrote:

> Isn't the usual recommendation these days not to use stuff like  
> "r{\'e}sum{\'e}e", but to use résumée together with a proper input  
> encoding. I use
>
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
>
> (although I've seen that some people don't like that encoding for  
> Latex).
>
> Then you have to use fonts that contained "umlauted" characters,  
> like lmodern. The reason for the above is that the pdf file then is  
> searchable for words like résumée, which it will not be otherwise.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> On Oct 1, 2008, at 16:32 , Dominikus Heinzeller wrote:
>
>> Dear MacTeX Users,
>>
>> I am a new member of this mailing list, so please forgive me if  
>> this question came up before. I switched to Mac about a month ago,  
>> previously using Windows (and Linux for the real stuff like  
>> astrophysical simulations). I am very happy with this decision and  
>> I also managed to get almost everything running in a similar or  
>> better way than before.
>>
>> However, I have one specific question concerning a reasonable  
>> editor for LaTeX. Under Windows, there is an excellent software  
>> called WinEdt, which has one special feature I really need and  
>> which I could not find thus far for any editor available under MAC:  
>> read-and-write translations. This means that when a file is read  
>> from the disk, a certain combination is replaced and displayed with  
>> another one. For example, in the ASCII file on the disk there is a  
>> text passage "r{\'e}sum{\'e}e". The translation mechanism  
>> recognizes {\'e} and converts it into é, producing a résumée in  
>> WinEdt. This has the big advantage that the text is readable, spell  
>> checking is possible and at the same time, the ASCII file is really  
>> platform independent (since it contains only non-special  
>> characters). When typing with a French keyboard in WinEdt, I can  
>> also use the special characters such as é, which makes typing very  
>> fast. The internal translation mechanism converts é back to {\'e}  
>> when saving the file on the disk. Along with that, WinEdt provides  
>> perfect support of LaTeX features like an IDE and has a very  
>> convenient spellchecker. If, by hazard, anyone knows an editor  
>> capable of that, please tell me. I am also willing to pay for it in  
>> case it is shareware (so is WinEdt). Thank you!
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Dominikus
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Dominikus Heinzeller
>> Institute for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics
>> University of Kiel, Germany
>> email: dominikus at heinzeller.eu
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