[OS X TeX] Could Folks Check This?

[Herbert Schulz]

On Apr 21, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Michael Sharpe wrote:

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> On Apr 21, 2010, at 5:41 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
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>> Howdy,
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>> Enclosed a Macro for TeXShop called `Open Selection' and bound to Opt-Cmd-O. It allows you to select the name of a file (package, class, included, bibliography, etc.) in a command (e.g., \usepackage) and will search along the standard path for that type of file.
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>> It has worked on my system for many years, including under my present OS X 10.6.3. Someone has reported that it throws and error message on their system.
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>> I'd appreciate it if some folks would test the macro in TeXshop on their systems and let me know the results there. It has been a very useful macro for me.
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>> <OpenSelection.plist.zip>
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> Herb,
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> The version in your attachment has HTML entities in place of items like & < etc, and if not replaced with characters expected by the Applescript interpreter, you get error messages. I believe it's enough to replace each occurrence of & with & and of < with <.
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> Michael
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Howdy,

How did you enter the Macro into TeXShop? Did you use Macros->Open Macro Editor... and then Macros->Add macros from file... OR did you copy from the script part of the plist file? If you use the former method the conversion back should take place automatically.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)