[OS X TeX] List of feature requests on this list

[Alain Schremmer]

On Apr 6, 2014, at 4:49 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Feb 23, 2014, at 9:07 PM, Alain Schremmer <schremmer.alain at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
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>> On Feb 23, 2014, at 9:58 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote Re: [OS X TeX]  
>> Wish for TeXShop : attach custom icon to a given file:
>>
>>> I even used to keep track of these requests. Eventually, it seemed  
>>> that most of them would be incorporated, if rather inconspicuously.
>>
>> May 11, 2009 4:08:00 PM EDT, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>>
>> Here it is:
>>
>> In order to facilitate later archive searches, features being  
>> suggested/requested on this list should probably be suggested/ 
>> requested and discussed IN SEPARATE THREADS, UNDER THEIR OWN NAME,  
>> rather than in this thread. Note that this List of feature requests  
>> on this list does refer to such posts for details.
>>
>> Suggesting a TeXShop feature on this list is absolutely not an  
>> alternative to making a request at  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=155796&atid=797241 
>>  .
>>
>> This "wish list" is a compilation of TeXShop features being  
>> suggested/requested on this list. Omissions result from my  
>> negligence rather than from my malevolence. (This thread started as  
>> a way to gauge the importance accorded to features suggested/ 
>> requested on this list but, while "voting" didn't seem to generate  
>> much interest, "keeping track" seems to have.)
>>
>> ============================================
>> Newly Granted Wish(es)"".
>> ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
>> New Wish(es):
>> ============================================
>>
>> Features requests that are indented were granted and remain here  
>> only for the record.
>>
>> Hopeful regards
>> --schremmer
>> ...
>
> Howdy,
>
> A few comments about some of the items in the wish list:
>
>> F1—A SECOND Typeset button, one that does NOT save at the same time
>> F2—A preference option to control whether Typeset saves or not -  
>> and link that to the keyboard typeset command.
>> F3—Have a Command-click/Option-click/Control-click choice that runs  
>> the file but doesn't save it. (See Litchfield, March 3, 2009  
>> 4:14:29 PM EST)
>>
>
> I guess I don't understand the need for this? Especially under Lion  
> and later there is automatic saving of the document and you can get  
> back a previous version easily.
>
>>
>> K2—Indenting of the nested environments (Loukanova March 26, 2008  
>> 2:49:30 PM EDT)
>>
>
> I'm not sure I understand this. TeXShop will maintain indentation  
> after a return; it doesn't maintain indentation upon soft wrap.
>
> Also, in more recent versions of TeXShop (3.??) Command Completion  
> will retain indentation and there is even an indented version of the  
> completion file.
>
>> L—Emacs <-> TeXShop. (Loukanova, March 24, 2008 5:51:47 PM EDT + 25  
>> Mar 2008 07:47:57 +0100 (CET)
>>
>
> I've tried to search for this 2008 thread. You can set many emacs  
> style key combinations and commands by using the KeyBindings method  
> and they will work in all apps that use Apple's Text Framework.  
> Download KeyBindings.zip from <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10932738/index.html 
> > for more information.
>
>> M1—An option to color $ ... $ strings a solid color.
>> M2—An option to color  \( ... \) strings a solid color. (Andretta  
>> March 31, 2008 9:57:31 AM EDT)
>>
>
> I guess I'd find this very distracting.
>
>>
>> S1—Ability to take "snapshots" à la Skim. (Goldstein July 7, 2008  
>> 1:49:49 PM EDT)
>
> I don't know what this is?
>
>> S2—A "spyglass" floating window that is the target of cross- 
>> reference hyperlinks in the main PDF viewing window. (Moore July 7,  
>> 2008 5:52:36 PM EDT)
>>
>
> No ``spyglass'' but you can click on a cross-reference link (if you  
> used the hyperref package) to go to the source of the link and then  
> use the back button on the Preview Window Toolbar to go back to link  
> page.
>
>> T—"An extensible tag list would be a nice addition". (Schulz March  
>> 2, 2009 9:24:07 AM EST)
>>
>
> Again, I'm not clear on what is wanted. You can already create  
> personal tags that automatically get added to the Tag popup menu in  
> the Source Window Toolbar. Simply use
>
> %:my tag
>
> at the start of a line to add `my tag' (without quotes) to the Tag  
> popup.

(1)	The frequency of wishes on the list seemed to have abated and many  
were being fulfilled so I eventually felt there wasn't much more of a  
point to keep track of them.

(2)	I re-posted the above (from May 11, 2009) only to point out that,  
traditionally, on this list, wishes were not considered as putdowns.

(2)	I gave the original mails to facilitate re-searches.

(3)	As for those that were *my* wishes, F1 and F2, The point was that  
since I work on one chapter at a time and my Mac is old and slow (like  
myself), waiting for it to be LatexMarked Typeset was a bit lengthy,  
even for me. So, I Save the chapters and LatexMarked Typeset the whole  
book only once in a (long) while. Now I use Command-Shift-L which does  
exactly what I wanted: Save and update the Preview but nothing else.

Best regards
--schremmer