[OS X TeX] Sysquake for LaTeX (and TeXShop)

[Akshay Gulati]

This question may look stupid but i really want to ask :) before  
putting time in this new package, what will be the advantage of this  
package over the package MACTEX (TEXSHOP) I am using
right now..

Is it really worth to put time in this package if things are fine with  
the package i am using right now, i mean what is motivation in
putting time in this..is it giving us some thing new
On 28-Mar-09, at 12:54 PM, Ramón Figueroa-Centeno wrote:

>
> Aloha,
>
> I have added some lines to the engine to delete some files. The  
> reason is that if I do not remove them bounding boxes are  
> incorrectly modified in subsequent compilations.
>
> Here it is:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> PATH="$PATH:/usr/texbin:/usr/local/bin"
> pdflatex --shell-escape "$1"
> pdflatex --shell-escape "$1"
> name=$(basename "$1" .tex)
> rm "$name".lme
> rm "$name".lmeout
> rm lmefrag*
>
> Now, if you use the preview package you can get a plot in its own  
> pdf, that then can be included in another document through  
> \includegraphics. Here is an example:
>
> % !TEX TS-program = Sysquake
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage[latexingraphics]{sysquake}
> \usepackage{graphicx}
> \usepackage{hyperref}
> \usepackage{epstopdf}
>
> \usepackage[%
> active,% Comment this to inactivate preview
> pdftex,tightpage]{preview}
> \PreviewEnvironment{sysquake}
>
> \begin{document}
> \begin{figure}[ht!]
> \centering
> \begin{sysquake}(300, 300)
> plotoption nomargin;
> plotoption fill3d;
> use colormaps;
> colormap(blue2yellow2redcm);
> s = -3:0.25:3;
> t = s;
> [x,y] = meshgrid(s,t);
> z = x.^2 - y.^2;
> surf(x,y,z);
> \end{sysquake}
> \caption{$f(x,y)=x^{2}-y^{2}$}
> \end{figure}
> \end{document}
>
> Finally, I typed the following in the Terminal to be able to remove  
> Sysquake auxiliary files from within TeXShop:
>
> defaults write TeXShop OtherTrashExtensions -array-add "lmelog"
> defaults write TeXShop OtherTrashExtensions -array-add "lmeout"
> defaults write TeXShop OtherTrashExtensions -array-add "lme"
>
> (the last two lines are redundant if you use the engine, but they do  
> not hurt and you may want them if you do not use the engine).
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Ramón
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