[OS X TeX] A Wintel mate to TeXShop

[Alain Schremmer]

Oops. I forgot to mention that I was running TeXShop v1.40, absolutely 
plain vanilla i.e. LaTeX and Pdftex as Defaults and Panther Distiller, 
on OS X 10.3.9.
Regards
--schremmer

Alain Schremmer wrote:

> My schedule this semester means that I will have to spend some time in 
> my office at school. So, I thought that I would use these hours on my 
> magnum opus. But of course, all I have there is a wintel box. So, here 
> is my question: what should I install/do there so that I can work on 
> said magnum opus both home and in the office. Is there any kind of 
> problem that I should expect or am I just my usual paranoid self and I 
> should just download MikTeX and all shall be well in the best of all 
> possible worlds?
>
> Regards
> --schremmer
>
> P.S. Below is the preamble of the magnum opus.
> %========================================================
> % begin PREAMBLE
>    % begin use packages
>        \usepackage{color}
>        \usepackage{colortbl}              \usepackage{graphicx}
>        \usepackage{epstopdf}
>        \usepackage{float}
>        \usepackage{pdfsync}
>        \usepackage{paralist}
>        \usepackage{amsthm}
>        \usepackage{amsmath}
>        \usepackage{amssymb}
>        \usepackage{array}
>        \usepackage{amscd}
>        \usepackage{pifont}
>        \usepackage{enumerate}
>        \usepackage{ulem}
>        \usepackage{calc}
>        \usepackage{booktabs}
>        \usepackage{relsize}
>        \usepackage[cspex,bbgreekl]{mathbbol}
>        \usepackage{makeidx}
>        \usepackage{showidx}
>        \usepackage{bibentry,natbib}
>        \usepackage{multirow}
>        \usepackage{fancyvrb}
>        \usepackage{fancybox}
>        \usepackage{varioref}
>        \usepackage{prettyref}
>        \usepackage{cancel}
>        \usepackage{askinclude}
>    % end use packages
>          \graphicspath{./{Figures/}}
>      %begin set
>        \setdefaultenum{\bfseries 1.}{\hspace*{2.pc} \bfseries 
> a.}{\bfseries i.}{} %controls asparaenum
>        \setdefaultleftmargin{5mm}{6mm}{7mm}{8mm}{}{} % controls indent 
> on compactitem      %end set
>
>
>
>    %begin new commands and environments
>        %\begin{interitemtext}
>            \makeatletter
>            \newcommand{\interitemtext}[1]{%
>            \begin{list}{}
>            {\itemindent=0mm\labelsep=0mm
>            \labelwidth=0mm\leftmargin=0mm
>            \addtolength{\leftmargin}{-\@totalleftmargin}}
>            \item #1
>            \end{list}}
>            \makeatother
>        %\end{interitemtext}
>            \newcommand{\object}[1]{\textbf{\textit{#1}}}
>            \newcommand{\NUMBER}[1]{\textsc{#1}}
>            \newcommand{\SUBJECT}[1]{\textsc{#1}}                      
> \newcommand{\STATEMENT}[1]{\textsc{#1}}
>            \newcommand{\scbf}[2]{{\bfseries\sffamily 
> #1\textsmaller[2]{#2}}\normalfont}
>            \newcommand{\NewTerm}[1]{\textbf{#1}\index{#1}}
> %            
> \newcommand{\NewTerm}[1]{\textbf{#1}\index{#1}\marginpar{#1}}
>                              
> \DeclareMathAlphabet{\denom}{OT1}{cmss}{sbc}{n}
>            \normalem
>            \makeindex
>           %            \labelformat{section}{section~#1}
>            \newrefformat{sec}{Section~\ref{#1}}
>            
> \newenvironment{semantic}{\setdefaultitem{$\spadesuit$}{}{}{}\begin{compactitem}}{\end{compactitem}} 
>
>            
> \newenvironment{syntactic}{\setdefaultitem{\ding{118}}{}{}{}\begin{compactitem}}{\end{compactitem}} 
>
>      % end use new commands and environments
>    % begin STYLES
>        \theoremstyle{plain}
>        \newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}
>        \theoremstyle{definition}
>        \newtheorem{defn}{Definition}
>        \theoremstyle{remark}
>        \newtheorem*{note}{Note}
>        \theoremstyle{remark}
>        \newtheorem{xpl}{Example}
>        \bibliographystyle{plain}
>    % end STYLES
>
>
> %end PREAMBLE
> %========================================================
>
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