<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 27 Feb2021, at 1:53 PM, Herbert Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" class="">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Feb 27, 2021, at 12:41 PM, Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">In a book-length document consisting of numerous files, if I copy something from whatever source window is open, click the Edit > Experiment menu item so that the copied text appears in the Experiment window that opens, and then click the Typeset button there, nothing happens?<br class=""><br class="">If I do this for a simple one-file document, Experiment works as expected.<br class=""><br class="">What’s wrong?<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Try this:<br class=""><br class="">Before typesetting the selected text in the Experiment window select the root file as the active source window. Then typeset the Experiment window.<br class=""><br class="">Remember that TeXShop uses the Preamble from the active source window to typeset the Experiment window contents.<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I copy some text from one of the open, non-root file windows, since that’s what I want to experiment on. I then select the root file’s window, go to the Experiment window, and click Typeset. Nothing happens!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>In fact, it’s worse than that! If I open the root file window, copy some text from there, select Edit > Experiment and press Typeset on the now-open Experiment window, nothing happens (except that a totally blank “file console” wndow opens).<br class=""><div class="">
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