[OS X TeX] Opening many files in order

[David Watson]

I know that it would be impractical for you, since it uses the  
terminal, but you CAN open them in "forced dictionary" mode if you  
rename them as I suggested, and then run:
     find ./some/root/directory -name "alains_prefiex*.tex" -exec open  
{} \;
in Terminal.

If you had all of them in the same folder, then you could simply run:
     open alains_prefix*.tex

Since the terminal will sort them in the way I suggested, they will be  
presented to the open command in the same order.

On May 20, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Alain Schremmer wrote:

>
> On May 20, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Berend Hasselman wrote:
>
>>
>> On 20-05-2009, at 16:12, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On May 20, 2009, at 9:52 AM, Berend Hasselman wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 20-05-2009, at 15:45, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This is a tad off topic but … short:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have very many folders each containing .tex files numbered  
>>>>> from 1 to 50 but when 10.4.11 opens them it does so in some  
>>>>> unfathomable order. Does the Leopard do that right? For me that  
>>>>> would make it worth upgrading.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Numbered as XXX1, XXX2, XXX3, ...., XXX10, ...
>>>> or as XXX01, XXX02, XXX03, ..., XXX10 ?
>>>
>>> I tried something like that a while ago but the overhead elsewhere  
>>> was too high and it took me a while to get rid of the leading 0s.
>>>
>>> Oh well!
>>>
>>
>> Considering the results of my experiments (see previous post), I  
>> would guess that you should be able to get what you want.
>> What sort of filenames do you have?
>
> 1.tex
> 2.tex
> 3.tex
>
> etc
>
> But, remember, I am talking about the order in which Finder opens  
> these files. So, to experiment, you would need to open them, make  
> some changes, save, close and open.
> But I already did waste some time trying to figure out a workaround  
> which is why I was asking whether Apple might have come around to  
> doing something sensible for a change.
>
> Hopeless regards