[Mac OS X TeX] GUI for teTeX settings, etc.; ideas from NeXT?

[William Adams]

Troy.D.Goodson said:
>As I am pretty clueless about teTeX settings, a nice GUI that I could
>trust to do things right would be a boon.

>And, as style files go, I'd be happy to turn management of such over to
a GUI.

>The info that I have lying around about NeXTTeX and TeX Menu don't
>seem to indicate that either of these had such a capability.  Was
>anything like this done in a NeXT app that could serve as a starting
>point?

One could configure various formats as entries in the Service menu (so
one could have, TeX, LaTeX 2e, LaTeX 2.09, AMSTeX, etc.), and the
Preferences included places where one could enter paths &c.

Isn't it merely necessary to place the style files in the appropriate
place in the filesystem and re-fresh the filename database? Having a
hard time envisioning this....

A project I'd like to see us swipe ideas from would be LyX....
www.lyx.org for those who've not looked at it.

William

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