[OS X TeX] Keeping TeXShop windows in their place

[Alain Schremmer]

Claus,

Trying to look for how long you have been bailing me out of various LaTeX pitfalls, I saw that you mentioned Flashmode at least already in 2005. But even though j'ai la mémoire qui flanche, I am pretty sure you helped me a long time before that---but who knows where all that mail is by now.

Anyway, thanks to Schulz posting the url, looking at the instructions, I now see why Flashmode somehow felt familiar. How could I ever forget?

I will give Flashmode a(nother?) try next week. But to avoid using \includeonly, what I am doing is, for each chapter, to have a "text file" that is \input both in a dedicated "control file" to typeset only that chapter and in an overall Book "control file" to typeset the whole Book. Looks a bit complicated but actually has worked very well for many years.

Best,
--schremmer


> On Sep 5, 2021, at 08:18, Claus Gerhardt <claus.gerhardt at uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> 
> Alain,
> 
> Flashmode does this (among other things).  This feature is independent of the screen since it only switches to the text where the cursor had been at the last closing of the source window by saving that position in a .position file at closing. When Flashmode is started to control the document it will try to read this information and will ask TeXShop to move the cursor accordingly.
> 
> Be aware that with the new restrictions of the OS you will have to give Flashmode certain privileges in System Preferences/Security&Privacy. The OS will ask  you to give your permissions.
> 
> Claus
> 
> On 2. Sep 2021, at 15:54, Alain Schremmer <schremmer.alain at freemathtexts.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there an application on Mac 10.13 (Please, Schulz, don't laugh too hard) that would remember the position of each and every TeXShop 4.64 window on closing/quitting and would restore them at that same place when opening/starting? I am normally using at least two source windows and two pdf windows but what probably complicates matters is that I am using two screens.
> 
> Best.
> --schremmer
> 
> 
> 
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