[OS X TeX] Voting on feature requests
Ross Moore
ross at ics.mq.edu.au
Tue Feb 12 01:33:41 CET 2008
Hi Chris, Alain, and others
On 12/02/2008, at 8:40 AM, Chris Goedde wrote:
> On Feb 11, 2008, at 3:11 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
> Just a couple of comments.
>
>> F—A Typeset button that does NOT save at the same time
>
> I don't see how this would ever work, since TeXShop calls tex/latex/
> pdf..tex to do the dirty work, and these command-line programs
> require files be written out to disk. So if you want the current
> changes in the editor window to be tex'd, they have to be written
> out to disk somewhere, hence the save-before-texing behavior. One
> could imagine trying to fake this by writing the file to a tmp
> directory, but this won't work except in the simplest cases.
His earlier posts give the impression that what Alain really wants here
is to read the last modification date of a file and have this displayed
as the \date .
This can be done using TeX's \write18 feature to run external commands.
The date can be obtained in a Terminal using:
ls -l myfile.tex | colrm 1 37 | colrm 13
giving a string such as: Feb 12 10:04
Put this into a file called "date" with:
ls -l myfile.tex | colrm 1 37 | colrm 13 > date
Do this inside a TeX job using
\immediate\write18{ls -l \jobname | colrm 1 37 | colrm 13 > date}
Now open the file "date" and read it, with:
\newread\datefile
\openin\datefile="date"
\read\datefile to \mydate
\closein\datefile
Now the macro \mydate should expand to the desired
date and time string, so \date{\mydate}
puts it onto the titlepage of a LaTeX document.
Vary the numbers to capture more or less of the string from
ls -l or similar listing command.
>
>>
>> G—Let the bottom of the source window be standard, with a
>> horizontal scroll bar
>
> I don't know what this means. For example, neither Mail.app nor
> TextEdit.app have horizontal scroll bars, so it seems to me that
> TeXShop's source window is perfectly standard in this regard. Do
> you mean that the editor should allow soft wrapping to be turned off?
Soft-wrapping can be a real pain; especially when you have data
that needs to be carefully aligned in columns.
Most definitely there should be the option to turn it off,
and have a scroll bar if lines are wider than the current
window-width.
Indeed this option exists already:
Source > Wrap Lines > None
>
> Chris
Hope this helps,
Ross
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