[OS X TeX] Re: Pdf sync in TeXShop & XeLaTeX

Eric van der Oord eric.van-der-oord at wanadoo.fr
Wed Feb 15 13:57:20 CET 2006


Is this a thread about "Pdf sync in TeXShop & XeLaTeX" ;-) ?

Eric
Le 15 févr. 06 à 13:52, Bruno Voisin a écrit :

> Le 15 févr. 06 à 13:34, Themis Matsoukas a écrit :
>
>> ...but (on my mail.app at least)  Bruno's and Peter's messages  
>> each appeared as a new thread, not threaded under  Paul's last  
>> message, even though they have identical subjects: "Pdf sync in  
>> TeXShop & XeLaTeX".  Was this the intention of the senders, or is  
>> mail.app that ignorant of proper threading?
>
> For me, Peter's message appeared as a new thread, which was  
> consistent with what Peter was saying in it:
>
>> A better approach is to position the cursor on the Reply-To field,  
>> press ctrl and the mouse button. From the contextual menu you can  
>> choose New eMail -- that's the way I created this response ...
>
> As to mine, they appeared in the same thread as Paul's original  
> message, replying to Steffen Wolfrum's message "[OS X TeX] Cutting  
> off magnification in TeXShop's preview". This is what I intended,  
> and is different from the thread initiated by Paul's second  
> message, created with the same subject "[OS X TeX] PDF sync with  
> TeXShop & XeLaTeX" but without replying to any other message.
>
> This only illustrates how picky email applications are when  
> identifying threads. But I can't see how it could be otherwise:  
> threads cannot be identified based on the subject field alone,  
> since otherwise you couldn't modify this subject as is often done  
> in mailing lists to reflect the evolution of a thread -- think for  
> example of "[OS X TeX] randomness not TeX nature (was Re: [OS X  
> TeX])" --; which only leaves the In-reply-to field as a viable  
> alternative (I imagine it was created especially for this purpose).
>
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