[OS X TeX] Praise for TeXniscope

[Claus Gerhardt]

I second Joachim's praise of TeXniscope.

Let me make a modest request for some additional features in TeXniscope:

- When a line is selected in a pdf window via a script (see below),  it 
should be highlighted
- There should be an option for continuous scrolling.
- There should be an option - for aesthetically reasons only - that 
should disable the coloured boxes when hyperref is active, like in 
Preview, at least if the "Sync Marks" are hidden.

tell application "TeXniscope"
	activate
	open thePDF
	refresh of the front document
	the front document goto line sourceLine of source texPath
end tell

Claus


On 25.11.2004, at 10:53, Joachim Kock wrote:

> Bravo, Massimiliano,
> thanks a lot for your good work.
>
> Despite its young age, TeXniscope is already the best previewer on OSX!
> (in the opinion of Yours Sincerely, anyway).
>
> This statement may surprise fans of TeXShop and iTeXMac, but these two
> great programmes were never dedicated previewers, focusing instead on
> editing and texing --- it is only natural that they now lack behind 
> when it
> comes to previewing.
>
> In case you've missed it, here are the very precious new features in
> TeXniscope 0.3:
>
> * You can define your own keyborad shortcuts for navigating the 
> preview.
> E.g. space for scrollPageDown, w for zoomToWidth, etc.  (Note the
> importance of having unmodified keys --- if you are reading a paper
> on-screen it is very important that you can navigate with one hand, so 
> that
> your other hand is free to hold a beer or a cup of coffee --- 
> seriously.)
>
> * There are AppleScript commands for setting the magnification 
> (including
> zoomToFit and zoomToWidth).  This is really convenient for controlling 
> the
> viewer from your editor.
>
> Another very dear feature is the "Go To Page..."  (Cmd-G) letting you
> navigate the document with the keyboard.  (In TeXShop and iTeXMac you 
> can
> only page-navigate using the toolbar, and in particular you are forced 
> to
> have the toolbar turned on.  This is waste of screen, especially on a
> portable computer.  Another reason why in TeXShop and iTeXMac you do 
> need
> the toolbar is that it is the only means of knowing which page you are
> viewing.  In TeXniscope there are convenient small indicators (page 
> number
> and magnification) at the bottom left of the window (a la OzTeX), and 
> you
> can abolish the toolbar altogether (not unlike the -spartan option in
> xdvi).
>
> Finally, TeXniscope is very good at synchronising --- it seems to be 
> the
> only previewer around that understands both pdfsync and dvi src 
> specials.
>
> Cheers,
> Joachim.
>
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