[OS X TeX] I'm done with TeXShop as my main editor

[Mark Eli Kalderon]

>
> That's not really necessary.  You can set both TeXShop an  
> TeXniscope so they watch your pdf document for changes every second  
> or so and automatically refresh when I change is detected.  I use  
> TeXniscope with the "Auto Refresh" option set (in TeXShop it's  
> Prefs -> Preview -> Automatic Preview Update), so if I run  
> "atchange foo.tex pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode foo.tex",  
> TeXniscope will show my updated document immediately upon saving it.

latexmk offers this functionality as well:

"It has a number of other useful capabilities, for example to start a  
previewer and then run latex whenever the source files are updated,  
so that the previewer gives an up-to-date view of the document."

http://www.phys.psu.edu/~collins/software/latexmk-jcc/

Best, Mark
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