[Mac OS X TeX] request: autorefresh

[V. Vatsal]

<x-flowed iso-8859-1>Philippe,

Is this script available some place? I'd like to try it.

Thanks.

--On Wednesday, September 19, 2001 5:20 PM +0200 Philippe Lelédy 
<phl at leledy.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Paulo Abreu wrote:
>
>> The feature I miss most while working with TeX under MacOSX is a ps/pdf
>> previewer with autorefresh -- that is, with the feature to reload and
>
>> moves to the saved position. Is it possible to write a script that does
>> this?
>>
>> Paulo
>>
>
> I wrote a simple script, after reading xdvi sources: to have autorefresh
> feature, scan every second the timestamp of the file, and if it has
> changed, issue
> open -a <app's name> <file-name>
>
> preview.app isn't clever enough for remenbering scale factor, but TeXShop
> is.
>
> Salutations.
>
>
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Vinayak Vatsal
Department of Mathematics
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z2

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