[OS X TeX] Two macros for TeXShop & iTeXMac

[Alain Schremmer]

I have a talent.
I just walk into a bank and everything grinds to a halt.
No joke. My friends drag me to their bank whenever they want to get 
even with their banker.

Anyway.

I hit FixTabul.
I change floating to fixed in the first dialog box.
I hit Booktabs even though I am writing a book rather than a memoir. 
Just curious.
I see these beautiful apples.
I replace them with stuff. This is real easy.
I hit Typeset (I am in TexShop)
The console grinds to a premature halt: It is not happy about toprule, 
etc

Now, before I change toprule to hline, is this because, downunder, 
horizontal is top or is this because "they have better vertical 
spacing" etc (Companion2ed p270.

As for your question (do you find them useful, or is it just as easy to 
do it by hand?) are you kidding or fishing for compliments?

I wish you had published that a couple of weeks ago.
But I still have a lot of them to do. The point is that I fill most of 
them by copy paste.

Thanks a real lot.
Regards
--schremmer

On Jul 13, 2004, at 8:33 PM, Will Robertson wrote:

>
> On 14 Jul 2004, at 9:38 AM, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
>> I did not see what makes the tabular a floating one but I take your 
>> word for it. Is there a way to make it non floating? A lot of my 
>> tables are two or three rows and really part of the body text.
>>
>> Any other such in preparation?
>
> By floating I mean that the tabular is wrapped up in the table 
> environment with a caption and label so you can refer to it (and if 
> there isn't space for it, it will move to a page where it can fit).
>
> If you just want a centered table in your text that doesn't move, I've 
> attached a new TeXShop macro to the end of this email that will do 
> this. I'll include it in the download next time I update the macros 
> (maybe soon, maybe not. You know where to find me if you have 
> problems!).
>
> The question is: do you find them useful, or is it just as easy to do 
> it by hand?
>
> Best of luck,
> Will
>
> <------CUT HERE------>
>
> --Applescript
>
> property indent_with_spaces : "  " -- edit this if you want other than 
> 2 spaces for your indent
> property cell_text : "ð " -- edit this if you want a different text 
> blob
>
> tell application "TeXShop"
> 	
> 	set q1 to display dialog "This macro creates a new floating tabular." 
> & return & "Enter the number of columns you'd like and then input the 
> type of tabular you want (booktabs is available in the memoir class)." 
> default answer "3" buttons {"Cancel", "Plain", "Booktabs"} default 
> button "Booktabs"
> 	set NCOLS to the text returned of q1
> 	set tabtype to the button returned of q1
> 	
> 	set q2 to display dialog "Enter the number of rows you'd like (not 
> including a header row) and whether you'd like tabs or spaces for the 
> indents." default answer "3" buttons {"Cancel", "Spaces", "Tabs"} 
> default button "Tabs"
> 	set NROWS to the text returned of q2
> 	set indenttype to the button returned of q2
> 	
> 	if NCOLS < 1 or NROWS < 1 then
> 		display dialog "Eh? Zero or negative rows or columns? Silly rabbit." 
> buttons {"ÁOops!"} default button 1
> 		return
> 	end if
> 	
> 	if the indenttype = "Tabs" then
> 		set the indent to "	"
> 	else
> 		set the indent to indent_with_spaces
> 	end if
> 	
> 	if the tabtype = "Booktabs" then
> 		set the toprule to "\\toprule"
> 		set the midrule to "\\midrule"
> 		set the bottomrule to "\\bottomrule"
> 	else
> 		set the toprule to "\\hline"
> 		set the midrule to "\\hline"
> 		set the bottomrule to "\\hline"
> 	end if
> 	
> 	set the beforetext to "\\begin{center}" & return & indent & indent & 
> "\\begin{tabular}"
> 	set the aftertext to indent & indent & bottomrule & return & indent & 
> "\\end{tabular}" & return & "\\end{center}"
> 	
> 	set the column_preamble to "{@{} c"
> 	set the one_row_text to indent & indent & cell_text
> 	
> 	if NCOLS > 1 then
> 		repeat with c from 2 to NCOLS
> 			set the column_preamble to column_preamble & "c"
> 			set the one_row_text to one_row_text & "& " & cell_text
> 		end repeat
> 	end if
> 	
> 	set the column_preamble to column_preamble & " @{}}" & return
> 	set the one_row_text to one_row_text & "\\\\ "
> 	
> 	set the midtext to Â
> 		indent & indent & toprule & return & Â
> 		one_row_text & return & Â
> 		indent & indent & midrule & return
> 	-- This is the first header row surrounded by rules, not counted in 
> the number of rows
> 	
> 	repeat with r from 1 to NROWS
> 		set the midtext to midtext & one_row_text & return
> 	end repeat
> 	
> 	set alltext to beforetext & column_preamble & midtext & aftertext
> 	set the content of the selection of the front document to alltext
> 	
> end tell
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