[OS X TeX] Multiple-page editing

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jan 13, 2010, at 12:18 AM, Alain Schremmer wrote:

> I am afraid that I did not make myself clear.
> 
> In TeXShop 2.26 (Yes, I dared to upgrade.)
> 
> Preview > Display Format 	>	Single Page
> 							Double Page
> 							Multipage
> 							Double Multipage
> 
> I am using Multipage, that is the pages scroll vertically. This is nice when you have a paragraph starting at the bottom of one page and continuing onto the next page. You can then scroll in such a way that the "interpage" space  (between the two pages) is in the middle of the screen so that you can see both the bottom of the first page and the top of the next page and thus the whole paragraph as if it were on a single page (modulo the interpage space)
> 
> So far, so good.
> 
> What happens when I typeset is that the preview scrolls automatically so that the space between the two pages goes to the nearer of the top and the bottom of the window instead of staying put so that now you see only one page and to see your paragraph, you have to scroll again to place the interpage space back in the middle of the screen					
> 
> 

Howdy,

I know I've experienced the page display ``slipping'' upward with each compile when the page break was in the upper half of the preview screen. Probably even discussed this on the list.

I just tried again placing the page break near the middle of the preview screen, changing the source and recompiling (as I remember --- you don't really have to change the source, just recompile) and the page break doesn't move. I'm using TeXShop 2.29 but I have a feeling this is more a PDFKit thing than TeXShop and I'm running Snow Leopard. I just tested on my PowerBook running Leopard and again, no slippage when recompiling. So, maybe updating your OS to a Leopard of some spot color (10.5) might ``solve'' the problem. :-)

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)