[OS X TeX] Fwd: Unwanted files have which extensions?

[Alain Schremmer]

Since we are into "things I/d like to see in TeXshop", here is my wish 
list:

- When including figures, I would like TeXshop to accept aliases. I 
still save copies before doing something I am not sure of. The way I do 
it is to have the TeX file and the Figures in a folder carrying the 
version number. Then, I just duplicate the folder and increase its 
version number. It would be nice to use only aliases for, instead of 
copies of, the figures.

- I would like to be able to command-select to apply at least certain 
macros as when I want to emphasize several non-consecutive  words …

- I would like to be able to change case in the source.

- I would like to be able to “no show” certain formatting macros such 
as \emph, textbf, textit, textsc, etc in the source. Better yet would 
be to render the corresponding formatting in the source. After all, the 
source has these formats available.

- I would like to have wild card in find and replace.

Regards
--schremmer

On Aug 16, 2004, at 3:23 PM, Stefan Walsen wrote:

> Josep M.Font wrote:
>> El 16 ago 2004, a las 12:41, Will Robertson escribió:
>> I have three suggestions related to this issue:
>> 1) I suppose it will be easy to customize the list of extensions in 
>> the list, e.g., sometimes I will want to keep the "bbl" file but 
>> trash the rest.
>
> This is very easy to change when done from a script, but more 
> complicated when integrated like in your second suggestion.
> But those files are all generated automatically, and I can't think of 
> any circumstance where you'd want to keep some and trash the rest.
>
>> 3) A suggestion for the design of TeXShop: Make all the "related" 
>> files accessible within TeXShop itself. I.e., now you can access your 
>> "file.tex" and "file.pdf" from the bottom section of the Window menu. 
>> If you are dealing with several files at the same time, this becomes 
>> a bit cluttered, but nevertheless you can only access the source and 
>> the pdf. I would thus suggest that each main file writes a single 
>> entry in the Window menu, and that all the related files appear in a 
>> submenu, to the left. And even more, I would also suggest a different 
>> scheme of key equivalent for this, instead of the command-1 to jump 
>> back-and-forth between source and pdf. For instance, using the 
>> control key plus an alphabetic modifier: ctrl + : s for source, p for 
>> pdf, c for console, a for aux, b for bbl, l for log, i for ind, t for 
>> toc... and user-customizable, too.
>
> As i just mentioned, in general none of these are edited by hand. 
> _Maybe_ you'd want to look inside the main (.log), index (.idl) or 
> bibtex (.bbl) log files - but this is only for finding some very 
> obscure errors, and probably not worth integrating into an editor.
>
> Something I'd like to see in TeXShop would be keyboard shortcuts for 
> the Scripts menu ... maybe just Shift-Command-1..9 for the first 9 
> entries in the menu, or maybe for the entries in the first submenu, 
> and then you could arrange your most needed scripts there?
>
> Stefan
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