[OS X TeX] finding missing braces

[Rolf Schmolling]

Hello!

Please accept my apologies for posting without a subject… this was  
actually the third time I tried, because somehow everything I sent  
went as html by mistake.

Thanks for the search expression. I will try to save it somewhere and  
try it out.

I tried the texshop-wiki as well and there Herbert Schultz suggested  
to doubleklick right after an opening brace or right before a closing  
brace. If everything is alright all text within the braces should be  
selected together with the two braces. Unfortunately that still is  
semi-automatic.

Someone I met in texusergroup hinted about some editors beeing smart  
enough to do this but I really want to hang to TexShop because it  
seems the only thing I'm able to work properly (simple but elegant,  
no programming-skill neded, excellent sync between source and pdf)…

Anyway thanks a lot!

Greetings,
Rolf

Am 04.03.2007 um 17:07 schrieb Alan Munn:

> At 2:09 PM +0100 3/4/07, Rolf Schmolling wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> anybody having an idea how to search for missing braces on TexShop?
>
> At least as hard as searching for messages with no subjects.  I  
> don't know of a foolproof way to do this, but one way that  
> approximates finding unmatched braces is to find and highlight all  
> instances of an opening brace followed by arbitrary text and then  
> another opening brace.  If you have an unmatched brace, chances are  
> this will show up as a larger chunk of text than you expect.  (Of  
> course, this isn't foolproof, since it also highlights any cases of  
> nested braces.)  So it depends a lot on the kind of text you write.
>
> The following regexp will work:
>
> \{[^{}]*\{
>
> Choose Find, click on the Regular Expression option and then choose  
> highlight.  This will highlight all instances as described above.  
> You can then go through these to see if they're the source of the  
> problem.
>
> Maybe others have a better solution.
>
> Alan
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