[OS X TeX] TeXShop 2.20

[Jan Rosinski]

I am going back and forth between Texshop and  Aquamacs.
Aquamacs has good inline latex preview which gives WYSIWYG
editing experience with many nice features and without
the restriction on the latex to be plain.
The latter is difficult to maintain when there are more than one  
author of a paper.
In such cases programs like LyX or Scientific Word produce a mess
in their previews or complain that can not translate the document.
With Aquamac I get  WYSIWYG  with any latex file.

I get excited when I learn new features in Aquamax and then get  
frustrated when something
does not work (or rather I do not know how to make it work). The manuals
assume some knowledge of unix, I think, and it is difficult to find  
things one needs.
  So, there are many features in aquamacs which are not obvious  
because of poor documentation
for 'regular' latex users who just want to write papers and have no  
need or desire to learn advanced
computing. Consequently, I learn by trial and error and the only  
advantage of Aquamacs over the TeXShop,
to me at present, is the inline preview.

I have a question to knowledgeable people. Is it possible, in  
principle, to port the inline
latex preview from auctex to TeXShop?

Jan


> From: Alain Schremmer <schremmer.alain at gmail.com>
> Date: January 26, 2009 5:56:47 PM EST
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop 2.20
> Reply-To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
>
>
>
> On Jan 26, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Jung-Tsung Shen wrote:
>
>> People out there still using OS 10.4 might be interested to know the
>> following explanation from Dick.
>>
>> JT
>>
>> On 1/26/09, Richard Koch <koch at math.uoregon.edu> wrote:
>>> Jung-Tsung,
>>>
>>> TeXShop 2.20 will work fine on system 10.4, modulo an important  
>>> bug in the
>>> PDFKit which Apple fixed in system 10.5. TeXShop ran on 10.4  
>>> during the
>>> entire "lifetime" of that system, so users managed to exist with  
>>> the bug.
>>> But now that it is fixed in Leopard ....
>>>
>>> The problem is that when you typeset, TeXShop needs to throw away  
>>> the data
>>> for the old pdf file and load the new one. In system 10.4,  
>>> throwing away the
>>> old data led to an enormous slowdown of TeXShop. TeXShop has a  
>>> work around
>>> to trick the system into believing that this old data is still  
>>> being used.
>>> As a result, the program is fast and displays the new pdf, but  
>>> your memory
>>> is gradually reduced as you typeset over and over.
>>>
>>> TeXShop recognizes when it is running on 10.5, and disables the  
>>> workaround;
>>> thus on Leopard your memory is not used up.
>>>
>>> Dick
>>
>>
>> Dick,
>>
>> Thank you very much for the detailed explanation. I have installed  
>> the
>> latest version, and it ran smoothly on OS 10.4.11.
>>
>> Let me join others to thank you for the wonderful contributions.
>
> I haven't downloaded it yet but I appreciate the reassurance  
> (10.4.11)—as well as the explanation—and, in any case, I wish to  
> join the crowd and thank Koch et al for a front end that I have  
> really enjoyed from the moment I started the hard LaTreK.
>
> Very, very grateful regards
> --schremmer
>
>
> P. S. Last night, I spent a couple of hours on acquamacs because I  
> am looking for an html editor and thought I would first meet  
> acquamacs on a turf that I am a bit more familiar with. I was  
> soundly defeated. So, yes, Slater is right, sometimes, after all,  
> too much of a good thing is not so good.
>

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