[OS X TeX] Can a TeXShop engine give the PDF name?

[Michael Sharpe]

On Dec 3, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Michael Sharpe <msharpe at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Though AppleScript can appear flaky, and does indeed change from one version of OSX to another, there is usually a workaround. One of the things that changed a couple of updates ago is that Open in the TeXShop dictionary now leads to error -1712, for reasons I can't explain. If you change your script to catch the error, it will work reliably. Eg,
> 
> #!/bin/tcsh
> 
> osascript << EOF                                                                          
> tell application "TeXShop" 
> 	try
> 		open posix file "$cwd/foo.pdf"
> 		activate
> 		set index of window "$1:foo.pdf" to 1
> 		tell document "$1:foo.pdf" to refreshpdf
> 	on error
> 	end try
> end tell                
> EOF                                                                                       

Sorry---that should have been

#!/bin/tcsh

osascript << EOF                                                                          
tell application "TeXShop" 
	try
		open posix file "$cwd/foo.pdf"
	on error
	end try
	activate
	set index of window "$1:foo.pdf" to 1
	tell document "$1:foo.pdf" to refreshpdf
end tell                
EOF                                                                                       

Michael