[OS X TeX] TeXShop's %& ugly bug
Jérôme Laurens
jerome.laurens at u-bourgogne.fr
Fri Sep 10 13:08:59 CEST 2004
Le 10 sept. 04, à 12:43, Will Robertson a écrit :
>
> On 10 Sep 2004, at 7:37 PM, Maarten Sneep wrote:
>
>> On 10 sep 2004, at 11:55, Will Robertson wrote:
>>
>>> On 10 Sep 2004, at 6:22 PM, Maarten Sneep wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'd like to add that there should be no real reason to reinvent the
>>>> wheel: emacs has added meta-data information to tex and other
>>>> file-types for years. The important ones (master-file and
>>>> character-encoding) are all there, and I think adding some
>>>> application specific ones would not be horribly hard.
>>>
>>> Do you know the specifics of how this is done? Is it simply comments
>>> at the top of the document, or instead a separate file with the
>>> information inside? It does seem sensible to coerce emacs' method.
>>
>> A set of comments at the end of the file, I'd have to look up a
>> sample somewhere to get at the specifics, but there are emacs users
>> on this list (and even the porter of Carbon enhanced emacs hangs
>> around here), and I think they can provide much more detailed answers
>> of how emacs does things.
>
> From the AUCTeX documentation (v11.50, which I haven't even worked out
> how to install yet), it looks something like this at the end of a
> file: (couldn't find an example for the character encoding)
The character encoding is given in the first line of the file and does
not seem related to AUCTeX
%-*-coding=blah-*-
It is a list of semicolon separated instructions.
>
> %%% Local Variables:
> %%% TeX-master: "master"
> %%% TeX-command-default: "SliTeX"
> %%% End:
>
> It's ugly enough that I'd be happy just re-implementing the %&
> functionality to use a different prefix. I find the whole issue fairly
> trivial, though.
Hummmm, not that trivial I'm afraid...
Moreover, very inefficient if you have to parse the whole file just to
know the master one, or the command to perform.
This is not a good design if you want to separate the editor and the
TeX frontend.
An external file would be significantly better. Why not defining
something more general?
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