[OS X TeX] Fragile Commands [Was: how to convert .doc to .TEX?]

[Curtis Clifton]

On Jan 19, 2005, at 7:30 PM, Will Robertson wrote:

> I prefer fixing the problem, instead of hammering it out:
>
>    \usepackage{pdfsync}
>    \makeatletter
>      \def\emph{{\protect\@PDFSYNC}\PDFSYNC at emph}
>    \makeatother
> [snip]
> Was it Curtis Clifton who patched a different part of pdfsync (\par to 
> \@@par or vice versa)? Maybe we should start a pdfsyncfix package 
> until Jérôme is able to do it himself...

The patch involved modifying TeX's \everypar instead of LaTeX's \@@par.

The pdfsync package is hosted on SourceForge.  Perhaps Jérôme would 
consent to giving one of us commit and release privileges there.  I 
participate in a couple of SourceForge projects, so my systems are 
configured for access.  But I probably wouldn't be the right one to do 
that, because I use BBEdit + TeXniscope as my LaTeX frontend and 
viewer.  It would be important to thoroughly test that any changes 
didn't break anything in iTeXMac and TeXShop.  Though I suppose beta 
versions of the package could go to the list for testing before putting 
new versions on SourceForge.

Cheers,

Curt

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Curtis Clifton, PhD Candidate
Dept. of Computer Science, Iowa State University
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cclifton

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