[OS X TeX] Feature Request Math Bracket

[Herbert Schulz]

On Mar 12, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Richard J Benish wrote:

> I mean in the Editor. And I should have mentioned also the "braces"  
> that contain arguments for commands, like \frac, superscript and  
> subscript, etc. In the Editor these all get very hard to keep track  
> of.
>
> I'm using TeXShop Version 2.10beta8 (210).
>

Howdy,

First... I'd update to TeXShop 2.14.

> For long equations in which I know I've gotten lost because the file  
> won't render, I sometimes resort to taking a screen shot, printing  
> it and then, with various colored hi-lighters breaking it down to  
> find the error. It would be nice if the colored hi-lighters were in  
> the program.
>
> Thanks for all the help.
>
> Richard Benish


TeXShop does have a couple of features that can help.

1)Check `Parens Matching' in TeXShop->Preferences->Document->Editor  
and when you use a closing delimiter the cursor will jump to the  
matching opening delimiter momentarily and hi-light it.

2)If you Double Click on a delimiter (opening or closing) all the text  
between the opening and closing delimiter, including the delimiters,  
will get selected.

You could set up a keyboard mapping (known as Auto Complete) that will  
always put in matched delimiter pairs with the cursor between them but  
I find that more of a distraction than a help.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)