[OS X TeX] TS-Snow Leopard bug

[Themis Matsoukas]

On Oct 21, 2009, at 9:59 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I can confirm that the path to the ``problem' file has a duplicated
> segment. But that seems to happen in either 10.5 or 10.6. The
> difference is that in 10.5 if I then click on the duplicated directory
> it actually opens up the folder with the file while it doesn't in  
> 10.6.
>
> I attach a simple example. The root.tex file is in the RootFolder and
> a second.tex, which is \input in the root.tex file using a relative
> path, is in SecondFolder at the same level as RootFolder. Compile the
> root.tex file and Cmd-Click, to use synctex, in the second line in the
> pdf output; this opens the second.tex file. Cmd-Click on the proxy
> icon (next to the window title) to show the path with the duplicate
> structure. Under 10.5 when I click on the SecondFolder just before the
> second.tex that folder opens showing the file; under 10.6 the folder
> that holds both subfolders open.
>
> <includetest.zip>
>
> I'm afraid this is a 10.6 bug (or correct/expected behavior?) but the
> duplicate structure was there in both 10.5 and 10.6.
>
> If the second.tex files is already open in TeXShop it isn't re-opened
> and the path remains the same.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>


Herb,

Thanks for going through the trouble to confirm. You are correct, the  
path in 10.5 is also wrong (I had not noticed) but the behavior is as  
expected (i.e. if you select the container folder, it is found and is  
opened in the finder).

Themis

Themis Matsoukas
matsoukas at engr.psu.edu