<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On Dec 8, 2013, at 6:00 PM, Scot Mcphee <<a href="mailto:scot.mcphee@gmail.com">scot.mcphee@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(160, 160, 168);">On 09 December 2013 at 01:00:05 , Herbert Schulz (</span><a href="mailto://herbs@wideopenwest.com">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a><span style="color: rgb(160, 160, 168);">) wrote:</span></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><br>On Dec 8, 2013, at 7:54 AM, George Gratzer <<a href="mailto:gratzer@me.com">gratzer@me.com</a>> wrote: <br><br>> Did u guys read these articles? Have fun. <br>> <br>> <NoticesV.pdf> <br>> <NoticesVI.pdf> <br>> <br><br>Howdy, <br><br>I remember the earlier articles but not these. Of course I didn't have an iPad at the time so I may have simply ignored them. Very nicely put together. <br><br>Steve Jobs made a big mistake by assuming that documents should be owned by a single app and therefore there is no need for a `file system'. Anyone who is more than a simple user will often use more than one app to work on the same file; e.g., many photo enthusiasts (not necessarily professionals) use multiple applications when dealing with raw photo files or even jpg file. Luckily, under OS X, even though there is a default application that opens when you double click the file, you can right click a file and use Open With… to open a file with another application. No such luck with iOS. </span></blockquote></div><p><br></p><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Applications can register a URL schema that they will handle and other applications can send a link (if the user chooses). So you could register e.g. tex:// and another application (say an editor) can format a URL and send it to the other application.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">So it would be certainly possible to have an editor editing a file on drop box and a tex engine processing the file when a button is pressed in the editor. With a bit of foresight and co-operation between software developers you could have interchangeable editors and tex processors.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Personally I use TeXpad on my iPad and don’t bother about processing the TeX - I wait until I’m at my computer. Normally when I’m writing on my iPad - which I’ve done for quite a while now, I’m on my second iPad having bought an iPad Air recently - I’m mostly interested in just getting out the words and ideas rather than typesetting the result. I use an external keyboard so I’ve got the whole surface for the editor; it’s a wonderful distraction-free writing environment. I don’t really love TeXpad as an editor though - most recently I’ve fallen back onto using the Elements editor to writing in Markdown via Dropbox, which easily converts to primitive TeX when I’m back in computer-land (also I use Scrivener as my main tool on the computer and it supports Markdown in a plain-tex mode but not TeX directly). </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Although unlike most of you I don’t give a damn about equations! ;-)</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What do you do for a living?</div><div><br></div><div>GG</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">scot</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><br>----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br>TeX FAQ:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br>List Reminders and Etiquette:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/</a><br>List Archive:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/">http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/</a><br>TeX on Mac OS X Website:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a><br>List Info:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex">https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>