[OS X TeX] Autocompletion in TeXShop

[Themis Matsoukas]

On Sep 28, 2007, at 11:54 AM, Julian Aguirre wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am having a problem with autocompletion (TeXShop 2.14, spanish  
> localization) and the character ^. When I stroke the ^ key, the  
> symbol appears in a yellow box. If the next key is a letter, say x,  
> I get ^x, with no braces. But if the next stoke is a space, I get ^^ 
> {|} with the cursor | between the braces. Something similar happens  
> with the umlauts. ä is converted into ¨\"a, with the umault before  
> the backslash.
>
> On the other hand, _ produces _{|}, as expected.

The yellow box you're referring to appears in international keyboard  
layouts to give you access to accented characters. Apparently, your  
keyboard is trying to place a "^" or "¨" on top of the next character  
you are typing but instead, it prints that character in front of the  
autocompletion string. Since I don't have this situation on my  
keyboard I don't know what the solution is. Have you tried to  
redefine the autocompletion commands in autocompletion.plist?

Themis


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