[OS X TeX] Typesetting info for TeXShop 2.01 documents

[Herb Schulz]

On 5/4/05 8:43 AM, "Richard Koch" <koch at math.uoregon.edu> wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> Thanks to Bruno for explaining his problem. I'll revise IMPORTANT_README
> to tell users exactly how to convert UTF-8 files.
> 
> To convert an XeTeX project, I recommend opening TeXShop from scratch,
> opening Preferences and setting the encoding preference to UTF-8
> Unicode,
> and then opening the files one by one and changing their encoding
> lines. Save
> all of the changed files. As a final step, switch TeXShop's encoding
> preference
> back to its original value.
> 
> The trouble with having TeXShop recognize the old syntax in addition
> to the
> new one is that it defeats the purpose of the fix. The "%&" syntax is
> reserved
> for tex itself.
> 
> Dick
> 

Howdy,

I thought that was only for lines that designated the TeX processor, e.g.,
``%&pdflatex,'' not for encoding since pdflatex, etc. (not including xetex
and/or omega), only understand ASCII input without a special input encoding
package.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)

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