[OS X TeX] MacOSX-TeX Digest, Vol 153, Issue 3
David Goldenberg
Goldenberg at biology.utah.edu
Tue Jul 7 21:48:02 CEST 2020
Sorry, I just saw your message. Anytime this afternoon is fine for me.
David
--
School of Biological Sciences
University of Utah
257 South 1400 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0840
Telephone: (801) 581-3885
Fax: (801) 581-2174
E-mail: goldenberg at biology.utah.edu
Web page: http://goldenberg.biology.utah.edu
> On Jul 7, 2020, at 1:00 PM, macosx-tex-request at email.esm.psu.edu wrote:
>
> Send MacOSX-TeX mailing list submissions to
> macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu
>
> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
> https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex
> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
> macosx-tex-request at email.esm.psu.edu
>
> You can reach the person managing the list at
> macosx-tex-owner at email.esm.psu.edu
>
> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> than "Re: Contents of MacOSX-TeX digest..."
>
>
> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. Just in case... (Axel E. Retif)
> 2. instant previewing (George Tourlakis)
> 3. Re: instant previewing (Glyn Williams)
> 4. Re: instant previewing (George Tourlakis)
> 5. Re: instant previewing (Herbert Schulz)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 07:29:36 -0500
> From: "Axel E. Retif" <axel.retif at gmail.com>
> To: texhax <texhax at tug.org>, TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List
> <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Subject: [OS X TeX] Just in case...
> Message-ID: <e20b778c-2d78-0923-191f-62218361415e at gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
>
> ...the Jul20 TUG News has been buried in your inbox, I would heartfully
> advise you to see
>
>> - A movie about the last day of Linotype machines at the New York Times,
>> https://vimeo.com/127605643
>
> that Boris Veytsman has recommended us. It's really wonderful!
>
>
> Best
>
> Axel
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 11:04:10 -0400
> From: George Tourlakis <gt at cse.yorku.ca>
> To: macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu
> Subject: [OS X TeX] instant previewing
> Message-ID: <D5670927-D60C-4EA3-9357-29E788D67D04 at cse.yorku.ca>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>
> Hi all,
>
> 1) There was once ?InstantTeX? for the NeXT operating system with not only instant previewing (DVI) but also you could drag an EPS file to the source file
> and code for generating code a displaying it in TeX was provided automatically.
>
> 2) Then there was iTeXMac in the MacOSX era, now apparently ?dead". That also had ?instant? previewing (unless it is so long ago and I am mistaken?) as one wrote on the source file (display was PDF as it is now)
>
> 3) Not so important but some might like it: In iTeXMac you could select text and use the normal keyboard shortcut (Apple-b or Apple-i) to insert code for rendering bold or italics.
>
> Which of these features do mathematicians consider desirable, I wonder? Why did they disappear? Why did iTeXMac disappear?
>
> Wish list: When (:-) will TeXShop incorporate previewing-as-you-write?
>
> Cheers,
> George
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 16:17:27 +0100
> From: Glyn Williams <DocGWilliams at yahoo.co.uk>
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] instant previewing
> Message-ID: <DAB9C296-42FF-4D59-925A-2ACA8799443E at yahoo.co.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>
> Hello everyone
> How do I stop receiving these emails from the erudite group?
> Thank you.
> Best wishes
> Dr Glyn Williams.
> A not very good user of LATEX!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 7 Jul 2020, at 16:04, George Tourlakis <gt at cse.yorku.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> 1) There was once ?InstantTeX? for the NeXT operating system with not only instant previewing (DVI) but also you could drag an EPS file to the source file
>> and code for generating code a displaying it in TeX was provided automatically.
>>
>> 2) Then there was iTeXMac in the MacOSX era, now apparently ?dead". That also had ?instant? previewing (unless it is so long ago and I am mistaken?) as one wrote on the source file (display was PDF as it is now)
>>
>> 3) Not so important but some might like it: In iTeXMac you could select text and use the normal keyboard shortcut (Apple-b or Apple-i) to insert code for rendering bold or italics.
>>
>> Which of these features do mathematicians consider desirable, I wonder? Why did they disappear? Why did iTeXMac disappear?
>>
>> Wish list: When (:-) will TeXShop incorporate previewing-as-you-write?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> George
>> ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------
>> TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
>> List Reminders and Etiquette: https://sites.esm.psu.edu/~gray/tex/
>> List Archives: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx
>> https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/
>> TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/
>> List Info: https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 11:35:28 -0400
> From: George Tourlakis <gt at cse.yorku.ca>
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] instant previewing
> Message-ID: <0FBA11F0-D35B-47C3-913B-94DDE058C1B9 at cse.yorku.ca>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
>
>
>> On Jul 7, 2020, at 11:17 AM, Glyn Williams via MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone
>> How do I stop receiving these emails from the erudite group?
>> Thank you.
>> Best wishes
>> Dr Glyn Williams.
>> A not very good user of LATEX!
>
> Ah! I should know better than write to a group of unknown people. The good Doctor is hopefully a great LATEX (sic) user!
> I am moderate, or less. I only have published 7 (mathematics) books so far (for some of which the good doctor just might not know which is the way up or down
> on the page). I provided LaTeX source to the publisher in all cases.
>
> Here is some good (I believe) advise: If you do not know the answer to a QUESTION, do not attempt to answer. Please: Do not demonstrate your own tragic limitations by presuming you know the person who asks. In general you don?t.
>
> Cheers,
> George
>
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL: <https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/attachments/20200707/454d43a1/attachment-0001.htm>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 11:37:46 -0500
> From: Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>
> To: List TeX on Mac OS X Mailing <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] instant previewing
> Message-ID: <F2E5AA98-FE16-48E8-B856-76FCF21C4E80 at wideopenwest.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>
>> On Jul 7, 2020, at 10:04 AM, George Tourlakis <gt at cse.yorku.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> 1) There was once ?InstantTeX? for the NeXT operating system with not only instant previewing (DVI) but also you could drag an EPS file to the source file
>> and code for generating code a displaying it in TeX was provided automatically.
>
> Howdy,
>
> It may be possible with latexmk but I'm not sure.
>
>>
>> 2) Then there was iTeXMac in the MacOSX era, now apparently ?dead". That also had ?instant? previewing (unless it is so long ago and I am mistaken?) as one wrote on the source file (display was PDF as it is now)
>
> I used iTeXMac for a while (before TeXShop had user defined engines) and don't remember ``instant previewing'' as being an option. iTeXMac `died' because the author stopped supporting it. He tried to create a project package format and it never took hold.
>
>>
>> 3) Not so important but some might like it: In iTeXMac you could select text and use the normal keyboard shortcut (Apple-b or Apple-i) to insert code for rendering bold or italics.
>>
>> Which of these features do mathematicians consider desirable, I wonder? Why did they disappear? Why did iTeXMac disappear?
>>
>> Wish list: When (:-) will TeXShop incorporate previewing-as-you-write?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> George
>
> TeXShop has two macros for creating Bold (\textbf{...} and Italic (actually I use the one for \emph{...} where ... is the selection). You can bind Cmd-B and Cmd-I to them and then you have that feature built-in.
>
> Take a look at Help->TeXShop Tips and Tricks for some other features that you may like.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Subject: Digest Footer
>
>
> -------------------------- Helpful Info --------------------------
> TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
> List Reminders and Etiquette: https://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/
> List Info: https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex
> List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/
> TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> End of MacOSX-TeX Digest, Vol 153, Issue 3
> ******************************************
----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------
TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
List Reminders and Etiquette: https://sites.esm.psu.edu/~gray/tex/
List Archives: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx
https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/
TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/
List Info: https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex
More information about the macostex-archives
mailing list.