iTeXMac 2.0pre351 review
DownloadiTexMac is a teTeX front end, text editor dedicated to TeX, and a PDF viewer.
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iTexMac is a teTeX front end, text editor dedicated to TeX, and a PDF viewer.
Here are some key features of "iTeXMac":
iTeXMac2 is Tiger only. (Maybe Panther will be partly supported)
iTeXMac2 is now project centric: each time you open a TeX document, iTeXMac2 will silently open or create an associate project. The project has extension texp. The TeX menu still gathers actions to be performed (typeset, make the index and the bibliography, clean, special...). You can customize these actions. The Window:project name submenu brings you to the various documents/files associated to the project.
iTeXMac2 knows about TeX wrappers. Documents with a texd extension wrap TeX projects and the documents. You can double click on them in the finder and everything will be open for you. There is a contextual menu in the distribution to let you move a folder into a TeX wrapper and vice versa. It is not required to use wrappers.
iTeXMac2 knows about inspectors. Now the window used to display the contents of a document can be different from file to file. For text documents, 2 inspectors are available: a very basic built in one named Default, and a switcher to TextEdit named TextEdit provided as an example for the use of an external text editor. For PDF documents, 3 inspectors are available: a very basic built in one named Default inherited from iTeXMac but yet incomplete, an advanced one using Tiger technology named Tiger and a switcher to Preview provided as an example to use an external PDF viewer. To use inspectors, click on a window, then choose in the Window:Inspectors menu the one you prefer. Of course, the choice is fairly limited now: Default for text and Tiger for PDF, but it will change rapidly (even HTML is planned)
iTeXMac2 knows about plug ins.
The synchronization between Tiger inspector and the built in text editor has been improved due to newly available Tiger technology. A huge step towards TeXTures famous synchronicity was made (pdfsync is still used however). Cmd+Double click on a letter in the source, it should bring you to the very letter in the PDF output. Cmd+Double click on a letter in the PDF output, it should bring you to the very letter in the input, in the correct file. Almost.
The syntax coloring scheme is really improved. You can define styles. You can now choose to display some TeX control sequences as the symbol they are meant to code for. This features will let you see an ??, ?? , , ?? when the source really contains alpha, eta, sum, forall and so on...
Spell checking knows about projects, each file has its own language and list of known words
The tiger PDF inspector knows about key bindings, this is some king of RPN implementation: 2+ will advance twice to the next page whereas 2* will zoom in twice and 2/ will zoom out twice. 100= will bring you to page 100, 100 enter will zoom to 100%.
Requirements:
TeX. (If you do not have TeX installed, you can dowload a package from G.Wierda's site (http://www.rna.nl/tex.html).
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