[OS X TeX] Latex Editor review!

[Yasmin Lucero]

Overall, I am pretty happy with TeXshop. The only other thing I really use
is RStudio, which provides good Sweave support.
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Yasmin Lucero
Postdoctoral Fellow
Northwest Fisheries Science Center
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:50 PM, soumya dipta <
soumyadiptabanerjee at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
> I use texmaker as my  primary latex editor and sometimes dabble with
> texshop, emacs....
> I am curious if there are any new editors that come highly recommended...
> The deciding criterion are
> 1. It should be cheap preferably open source...
> 2. The learning curve shouldn't be too steep and yet all the functionality
> be available to an expert.
>
> On a different note, has anyone here used latexian ? Any opinions?
> http://tacosw.com/latexian/
>
>
> Thanks,
> Shom
> ------------------------------
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>   1. Re: Pandoc (Rob Rye)
>   2. Re: Pandoc (Alain Schremmer)
>   3. Latex tree (soumya dipta)
>   4. Re: Latex tree (Alan Munn)
>   5. pdf compare (George Gratzer)
>   6. Re: pdf compare (M. Tamer Özsu)
>   7. Re: pdf compare (George Gratzer)
>   8. Re: pdf compare (Berend Hasselman)
>   9. Re: pdf compare (Peter Dyballa)
>   10. Re: Latex tree (Peter Dyballa)
>   11. Re: Latex tree (Herbert Schulz)
>
>
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>
> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:09:24 -0800
> From: Rob Rye <rowenrye at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Pandoc
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
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>
> On Feb 26, 2011, at 7:04 AM, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
> > Has anyone had experience with Pandoc? <
> http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/>
> >
> > I just found out about it: "If you need to convert files from one markup
> format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife. [...] Pandoc is free
> software, released under the GPL. © 2006–2011 John MacFarlane."
> >
> > I tried it on the site and it was impressive enough that I wanted to
> download it to give it a real try BUT:
> >> Pandoc is in the MacPorts, Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, Arch, Fedora,
> NetBSD, and FreeBSD ports repositories. Note that the version of pandoc in
> these repositories may not be the most recent. There is also a Windows
> installer.
> >>
> >> If an up-to-date package is not available for your system, an excellent
> way to install the latest release of pandoc is to install the Haskell
> platform on your system, then use the cabal tool:
> >>
> >> cabal update
> >> cabal install pandoc
> >> This will download and compile pandoc and all of its dependencies. If
> you want syntax highlighting support, add the flag -fhighlighting. If you do
> not want to install the wrapper script markdown2pdf, add -f-wrappers.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > So, it is not for me but since there have been threads about conversion,
> I thought I might mention it.
> >
>
> Alain,
>
> Your note regarding pandoc intrigued me. I would love to have such a tool
> at my fingertips. I have downloaded and installed everything and run an
> extremely simple test converting a brain dead simple .tex article file to a
> .html file. The conversion looked fine, but I have no idea how well things
> will go if I push it with more complex files.. When I get time to do so, I
> intend to report on its efficacy. As noted in the original post, pandoc does
> appear to be extremely versatile, what I don't yet know is whether each sort
> of conversion is also extremely finicky.
>
> For those interested in trying it out, it is remarkably simple to install
> the Haskell platform and to then install pandoc. The Haskell Platform, is
> available for download at:
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html
>
> The pair of .dmg packages that comprise the download will install
> everything you need to have in place in order to download and install pandoc
> (following the commands copied above). Note that documentation for other
> modes of installation for the Haskell platform (e.g. installing GHC, etc.
> piecemeal) indicated that XCode was required for GHC...
>
> Iif you want to have pandoc "globally" available you will need to use
>
> cabal install --global pandoc
>
> This will put pandoc in /usr/local/bin. Otherwise the executable will end
> up on ~/.cabal/bin and you will need that folder in your path to be able to
> use pandoc.
>
> I will stop for now for fear I may be straying off-topic for this list,
> but, I the threads Alain mentioned suggest I am not the only one with
> interest in being able to convert .tex files into other formats for various
> and sundry reasons.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rob
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 19:48:08 -0500
> From: Alain Schremmer <schremmer.alain at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Pandoc
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
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>
>
> On Feb 26, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Rob Rye wrote:
>
> >
> > On Feb 26, 2011, at 7:04 AM, Alain Schremmer wrote:
> >
> >> Has anyone had experience with Pandoc? <http://johnmacfarlane.net/
> >> pandoc/>
> >
> > Your note regarding pandoc intrigued me. I would love to have such
> > a tool at my fingertips. I have downloaded and installed everything
> > and run an extremely simple test converting a brain dead
> > simple .tex article file to a .html file. The conversion looked
> > fine, but I have no idea how well things will go if I push it with
> > more complex files.. When I get time to do so, I intend to report
> > on its efficacy. As noted in the original post, pandoc does appear
> > to be extremely versatile, what I don't yet know is whether each
> > sort of conversion is also extremely finicky.
> >
> > For those interested in trying it out, it is remarkably simple to
> > install the Haskell platform and to then install pandoc. The
> > Haskell Platform, is available for download at:
> >
> > http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html
> >
> > The pair of .dmg packages that comprise the download will install
> > everything you need to have in place in order to download and
> > install pandoc (following the commands copied above). Note that
> > documentation for other modes of installation for the Haskell
> > platform (e.g. installing GHC, etc. piecemeal) indicated that XCode
> > was required for GHC...
> >
> > Iif you want to have pandoc "globally" available you will need to use
> >
> > cabal install --global pandoc
> >
> > This will put pandoc in /usr/local/bin. Otherwise the executable
> > will end up on ~/.cabal/bin and you will need that folder in your
> > path to be able to use pandoc.
> >
> > I will stop for now for fear I may be straying off-topic for this
> > list, but, I the threads Alain mentioned suggest I am not the only
> > one with interest in being able to convert .tex files into other
> > formats for various and sundry reasons.
>
> One reason is that the way to epub is paved with html. So, I may bite
> after all.
>
> Best regards
> --schremmer
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:04:07 -0800 (PST)
> From: soumya dipta <soumyadiptabanerjee at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [OS X TeX] Latex tree
> To: macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu
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>
>
> Hello,
> I am trying to install some new packages in my system Mac OSX.
> I will like to know what are the possible ways to do it. I also do not
> understand the local versus global tex tree structure and would like to
> know
> more about it.
> Any reference will be great!
> Thanks,
> Shom
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:33:58 -0500
> From: Alan Munn <amunn at gmx.com>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Latex tree
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> On Feb 27, 2011, at 12:04 AM, soumya dipta wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello,
> > I am trying to install some new packages in my system Mac OSX.
> > I will like to know what are the possible ways to do it. I also do not
> understand the local versus global tex tree structure and would like to know
> more about it.
>
> On a Mac, the local texmf folder  is located in the Library folder  of your
> Home directory.  This is usually notated as "~/Library/texmf", where the "~"
> means "your home directory" (i.e. what you get when you click on the Home
> icon in a Finder window.).
>
> Unless there are multiple accounts on your machine that all need access to
> the same local files, this is the folder you should use.
>
> When should I put things in the local texmf ?
>
> Before putting anything into the local texmf folder, you should check that
> the relevant package isn't already part of TeXLive, and therefore included
> in the MacTeX distribution.  The easiest way to do this is to use the
> TeXLive utility.  This is especially true of packages on CTAN, most of which
> are included in TeXLive, and should already be available to you.
>
> If you know that a package is not available as part of TeXLive, then you
> should put it into your local texmf folder.
>
> What goes where?
>
> The texmf folder contains a number of folders, and these folders themselves
> contain other folders.  For most users, the three top-level folders that are
> most important are the following:
>
> Folder    What goes in it
>
> bibtex    This is where bib files and bst files go.
>     It should contain at least the following folders:
> bst        Put bst files here.
> bib        Put bib files here.
>
> tex    This is where new packages go.
>     It should contain the following folders:
>
> latex    Put latex packages here (also biblatex styles)
> plain    Put plain tex files here.
> xelatex    Put xelatex specific packages here.
> xetex    Put plain xetex files here.
> context    Put context files here.
> generic    Put files that are usable with any TeX flavour here.
>
> doc        Put documentation files from packages installed in the tex
> folder  here.  Putting the documentation files here allows them to be found
> by the texdoc system (or the "Show Help for Package" function in the Help
> menu of TeXShop).
>
> Other top-level folders in include fonts, scripts, and source.
>
> Alan
>
>
> --
> Alan Munn
> amunn at gmx.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:40:32 -0500
> From: George Gratzer <gratzer at me.com>
> Subject: [OS X TeX] pdf compare
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> I have two pdf files, a book as submitted, the same book formatted.
> Both from tex sources, unavailable.
>
> Is there is utility comparing the text of the two? Acrobat Pro
> gets confused because of font changes.
>
> GG
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:51:28 +0800
> From: "M. Tamer Özsu" <ozsut at mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] pdf compare
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
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>
> I think pdfdiff can do what you want -- it may be worth a try:
>
> http://people.inf.ethz.ch/cremersc/misc/pdfdiff.html
>
> ==Tamer
>
> On 2011-02-27, at 1:40 PM, George Gratzer wrote:
>
> > I have two pdf files, a book as submitted, the same book formatted.
> > Both from tex sources, unavailable.
> >
> > Is there is utility comparing the text of the two? Acrobat Pro
> > gets confused because of font changes.
> >
> > GG
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>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 01:00:15 -0500
> From: George Gratzer <gratzer at me.com>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] pdf compare
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
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>
> This is certainly beyond my technical abilities...
>
> GG
>
> On 2011-02-27, at 12:51 AM, M. Tamer Özsu wrote:
>
> > I think pdfdiff can do what you want -- it may be worth a try:
> >
> > http://people.inf.ethz.ch/cremersc/misc/pdfdiff.html
> >
> > ==Tamer
> >
> > On 2011-02-27, at 1:40 PM, George Gratzer wrote:
> >
> >> I have two pdf files, a book as submitted, the same book formatted.
> >> Both from tex sources, unavailable.
> >>
> >> Is there is utility comparing the text of the two? Acrobat Pro
> >> gets confused because of font changes.
> >>
> >> GG
> >> ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------
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> >>
> >
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> >
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:11:37 +0100
> From: Berend Hasselman <bhh at xs4all.nl>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] pdf compare
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>
>
> On 27-02-2011, at 07:00, George Gratzer wrote:
>
> > This is certainly beyond my technical abilities...
> >
> > GG
> >
> > On 2011-02-27, at 12:51 AM, M. Tamer Özsu wrote:
> >
> >> I think pdfdiff can do what you want -- it may be worth a try:
> >>
> >> http://people.inf.ethz.ch/cremersc/misc/pdfdiff.html
>
> In response to a query I made recently on this list about finding out the
> fonts used in a pdf,
> Michael Ummels sent a link to a disk image with the xpdf tools.
>
> The link is:
> http://users.phg-online.de/tk/MOSXS/xpdf-tools-3.dmg
>
> A utility pdftotext amongst others will be installed in /usr/local/bin.
> Just run the installer.
>
> I have just tried to run pdfdiff.py and it works on my Mac OS X 10.6.6
> provided you specify
> the diff program to use (if you don't it tries to find a diff but appears
> to hang).
>
> ./pdfdiff.py -d opendiff  A.pdf B.pdf
>
> You need to have Xcode installed. And make pdfdiff.py executable with chmod
> +x pdfdiff.py.
> If you don't have that, try -d diff instead.
> All of this in Terminal!
>
> Berend
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:11:50 +0100
> From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] pdf compare
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>
> Am 27.02.2011 um 06:40 schrieb George Gratzer:
>
> > Is there is utility comparing the text of the two?
>
>
> Last year we had a thread on this topic.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>   Pete
>
> What is this talk of 'release?' Klingons do not make software
> 'releases.'  Our software 'escapes,' leaving a bloody trail of
> designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:51:08 +0100
> From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Latex tree
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
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>
>
> Am 27.02.2011 um 06:04 schrieb soumya dipta:
>
> > I am trying to install some new packages in my system Mac OSX.
>
> They should be kept outside the "regular" distribution, outside the
> area managed by tlmgr/TLU. So it's either /usr/local/texlive/texmf-
> local for a system-wide or ~/Library/texmf for a personal
> installation, if you're using MacTeX.
>
> If you don't have a "global" file system, then you don't have a
> "global" TeX tree. Besides, tlmgr and TeX have no idea of "global",
> they make a distinction between system-wide, as managed by tlmgr/TLU,
> and personal. The system-wide trees have a release specific branch ( /
> usr/local/texlive/20XY) and an independent branch (/usr/local/texlive/
> texmf-local), for example for additional font support or to serve a
> particular direction in science or to allow use of some non-Latin
> script and a language that makes use of it. Other TeX distributions
> for UNIX systems support this for personal trees as well
> (~/.texlive20XY) while MacTeX does not and puts the whole mix into one
> ~/Library/texmf tree. The system-wide trees necessitate to run 'sudo
> texhash <optional directory>" after each change – and this change can
> only happen with elevated privileges.
>
> Details are described in the TeX Directory Structure (TDS)
> description. Many packages follow this "format" and can easily be
> installed in the branch's root.
>
>
> If you could tell us what you intend to install we could give less
> general annotations.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>   Pete
>
> Clovis' Consideration of an Atmospheric Anomaly:
>         The perversity of nature is nowhere better demonstrated than
> by the fact that, when exposed to the same atmosphere, bread becomes
> hard while crackers become soft
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 11
> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 06:35:16 -0600
> From: Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Latex tree
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Message-ID: <0E6F9FF8-FA6E-4BED-9A6F-7CBA9C24856D at wideopenwest.com>
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>
>
> On Feb 26, 2011, at 11:33 PM, Alan Munn wrote:
>
> > On Feb 27, 2011, at 12:04 AM, soumya dipta wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >> I am trying to install some new packages in my system Mac OSX.
> >> I will like to know what are the possible ways to do it. I also do not
> understand the local versus global tex tree structure and would like to know
> more about it.
> >
> > On a Mac, the local texmf folder  is located in the Library folder  of
> your Home directory.  This is usually notated as "~/Library/texmf", where
> the "~" means "your home directory" (i.e. what you get when you click on the
> Home icon in a Finder window.).
> >
> > Unless there are multiple accounts on your machine that all need access
> to the same local files, this is the folder you should use.
> >
> > When should I put things in the local texmf ?
> >
> > Before putting anything into the local texmf folder, you should check
> that the relevant package isn't already part of TeXLive, and therefore
> included in the MacTeX distribution.  The easiest way to do this is to use
> the TeXLive utility.  This is especially true of packages on CTAN, most of
> which are included in TeXLive, and should already be available to you.
> >
> > If you know that a package is not available as part of TeXLive, then you
> should put it into your local texmf folder.
> >
>
> Howdy,
>
> Let me add that my method for finding out if I need to install a package is
> to simply try to use it.  If the package is not present you'll get an error
> message. The TeX Live distribution (what is installed by MacTeX) is so
> complete that I rarely have to install any extra packages.
>
> > What goes where?
> >
> > The texmf folder contains a number of folders, and these folders
> themselves contain other folders.  For most users, the three top-level
> folders that are most important are the following:
> >
> > Folder    What goes in it
> >
> > bibtex    This is where bib files and bst files go.
> >     It should contain at least the following folders:
> > bst        Put bst files here.
> > bib        Put bib files here.
> >
> > tex    This is where new packages go.
> >     It should contain the following folders:
> >
> > latex    Put latex packages here (also biblatex styles)
> > plain    Put plain tex files here.
> > xelatex    Put xelatex specific packages here.
> > xetex    Put plain xetex files here.
> > context    Put context files here.
> > generic    Put files that are usable with any TeX flavour here.
> >
> > doc        Put documentation files from packages installed in the tex
> folder  here.  Putting the documentation files here allows them to be found
> by the texdoc system (or the "Show Help for Package" function in the Help
> menu of TeXShop).
> >
> > Other top-level folders in include fonts, scripts, and source.
> >
> > Alan
>
> Also note that this set of folders inside folders is NOT created by
> default. You need to create the texmf folder and it's sub-folder tree inside
> ~/Library/ and then fill it as noted above.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
>
>
>
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