[OS X TeX] Nobody knows

[Jérôme Laurens]

Le 23 mars 04, à 10:13, Will Robertson a écrit :

> Hi
>
> I just noticed Maarten's post on comp.text.tex involving a bash shell 
> script to run LaTeX as many times as necessary to get things right 
> with figure numbers et al.
>
> Considering TeXShop is all about making Mac the most simple and 
> pleasant way of writing LaTeX, why hasn't such a script been 
> implemented?

You mean why this script is not shipped as one of the defaults?
Maybe one day...

>
> I suppose alternatively, I could ask "Why doesn't everyone use 
> iTeXMac?" or "Why doesn't everyone write ConTeXt?".

You forgot,
"Why does not everyone use Mac?"
"Why does not everyone speak french?"
"Why does not everyone like cheese?"
...

>
> To conclude my post of questions no-one will answer (don't use this 
> sentence as an excuse, though)---has anything been done by anyone on 
> using folder packages to represent TeX documents with a single file?
>

A discussion started in the TeX Wrapper list. Only Gerben and I 
contributed. Gerben decided to close the discussion because the 
audience was really too small (we were only 3 or 4) but the archive is 
available through google I think.

I am currently working hard on that matter on my own and will present 
something concrete on that subject at TUG 2004. I hope I will find at 
TUG 2004 people who help in making final decisions concerning TeX 
Wrappers.

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