[OS X TeX] Strange TeXShop engine behaviour

[Alan Munn]

On Sep 22, 2011, at 8:26 PM, Claus Gerhardt wrote:

> You can bypass TeXShop completely by calling shell scripts through Applescripts using the command
> 
> do shell script "fullpathToBinary options "&fileName
> 
> As an example have a look at my bibtex scripts. There is no need to use engines. The overhead (file path, etc.) can be part of the Applescript (it can be part of an Applescript template).

Thanks, Claus.  I thought about that.  Since all of my files are encoded UTF-8, it's probably simplest just to add the language setting to the engine file, although for a more general solution, Applescript might well be the way to go.

Alan

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