[OS X TeX] How use pdflatex-dev and xelatex-dev with TeXShop

[Richard Koch]

The better way is to leave that preference setting as is. Instead, create a new engine. To do that, duplicate the existing XeLaTeX engine, and replace xelatex by xelatex-dev in the new copy. Or replace xelatex by pdflatex-dev to get a pdflatex-dev engine.

In general this is the way to use any experimental or new engine.

Dick Koch



> On Apr 5, 2022, at 8:28 AM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> How should TeXShop (4.70) with TeXLive 2022 (from MacTeX 2022) be configured so as to use pdflatex-dev anc xelatex-dev?
> 
> It would seem that in TeXShop’s Preferences > Engine > pdfTeX I can change the LaTeX command to:
> 
> 	pdflatex-dev --file-line-error --synctex=1
> 
> (1) Is that all? Or alternatives?
> 
> (2) What about xelatex?
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