{texshop} is used for questions addressing issues related to TeXShop, an integrated text editor and PDF previewer for the Mac designed for editing all kinds of TeX documents.
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How do I add a .sty file to my MacTeX/TeXShop installation?
I've searched online, but I have not found any clear instructions how to permanently add .sty files to my TeXShop installation. I'm using a Mac with OSX (TeXShop is a mac only program).
What is the ...
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In TeXShop, is there a directive to select biber or BibTeX on a per-document basis?
As in the title, I'd like to be able to select whether TeXShop uses biber or BibTeX in the document rather than using the command line or changing the default in the TeXShop preferences.
For TeX ...
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Engines of Tex-Editors and Biber/Biblatex
Today I detected that biblatex, biber or whatever is responsible for citations and bibliography does not work correctly on my tex-files. I can think of two reasons for it:
Maybe my engine-file (I am ...
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all-in-one-engine for TeXShop
I am trying to write my 'Matura work' for school in LaTeX. Therefore I am using MacTeX and TeXShop and normally it works fine.
But I am really annoyed with running all these different engines like ...
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Getting started with Greek and Hebrew in LuaLaTeX
I am typesetting a 17th century English theological document that uses a smattering of Greek and Hebrew. I am using LuaLaTeX with TeXShop on the Mac.
Is LuaLaTeX up to the task? If so what are the ...
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Indentation and line wraps in TeXShop
As pointed out in this question, in TeXShop there is no way to make source paragraphs (i.e. long lines with no hard wraps) follow source indents automatically, that is, while typing. The solution ...
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Does TeXShop for Mac have key bindings?
There's a Macro's and Key Binding option in the Preferences Menu, but the only way to utilize these macros is to click through the menus.
How do I get the good ol' classic CTRL+B -> \textbf{} ...
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Dummies Guide to Biber
I've spent a good deal of time searching the forum and couldn't find a user-friendly guide to citations with biber using TeXShop or TeXworks on a Mac. I'd like to successfully reproduce a slightly ...
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How can I install uarial.sty on a mac?
I'm using TexShop (2.43 on 10.6) to manage LaTeX, but have the following error:
! LaTeX Error: File 'uarial.sty' not found.
I tried to use the approach in this question with
\usepackage{listings}
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How do I install CTAN packages on Mac OS with TexShop?
I run TexShop on my Mac OS 10.6.
I'd like to install new packages like this: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/listings/
How do I install it? I've downloaded the zip file.
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How to use GNU Plot to plot diagrams in TexShop
hope anyone can help with this... I have a very basic knowledge of TeXShop, but I need to plot some functions on it, say y=x. I learnt that this can be done by installing GNU Plot and writing in ...
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Invoking makeindex for nomencl
I have spent many many hours failing to implement nomencl for my PhD thesis. The problem seems to be with invoking makeindex and creating the .nls file
I keep reading that I must invoke makeindex or ...
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SyncTeX functionality in TeXShop and TeXworks
I have a LaTeX source code compiled with synctex=1. If I open it in TeXShop
and I can click in the viewer on a certain word then I am navigated exactly on the word in the source code. By contrast, if ...
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Long paragraphs follow source indents in TeXShop
How do I make long paragraphs follow the source indents in TeXShop? This what I usually get:
How do I make succeeding lines follow the indent of the first line? This is so that it would be easier to ...
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Font installation in TeXShop on a Mac
I apologize for this being an extremely naive question, but I just can't seem to wrap my head around what the sources I've consulted so far are saying.
I'm writing a Beamer presentation in TeXShop, ...
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Automatic utility for tex source indentation
Is there any indentation tool for (la)tex?
I currently use TexShop under Mac OSX, so I can either use a TexShop plugin or a command line tool.
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TexShop + MacVim ?
Is there a blend of TexShop and Vim?
It is supposed to combine the advantages of SyncTeX and other features of TeXShop and the power of a Vim editor.
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How can I compile different .tex file on click on typeset in TeXShop? (MacTeX 2011)
My problem is that I want to have different .tex files for the preamble, the presentation aroundings (my target is a beamer PDF file) and the content of the presentation.
Mostly I'll be working on ...
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Can I still compile without saving first?
I just upgraded my LaTeX package. Previously, if I were to make a change in the document and subsequently hit "typeset," the change would automatically be reflected in the preview, and the document ...
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External scripts when using TeXShop
As I wrote in this answer to my question, I decided to use a shell script in order to concatenate the bunch of .tex files and compile them. However, this way, when ever I want to compile the whole ...
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TeXShop command line arguments
Is there, somewhere, some documentation explaining what arguments TeXShop accepts when started, for example with the shell command "open" on mac os X?
My specific problem is that I would like to be ...
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makeglossaries hangs waiting for input on mac
I'm very new to Latex so apologies if this is a newbie question. However I have looked around online and can't find an answer.
I'm trying to compile my file in TeXShop (on mac) using the following ...
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Citing a Reprint of an Article in BibTeX
How do I cite a reprint of a given article? I want to cite the postscript of Lewis's Counterpart Theory & QML which only appears in his Philosophical Paper vol. 1. I have the info in my bibtex ...
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How to run PSTricks in TeXShop
Why can't I run the following command in my TeXShop?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pstricks-add}
\begin{document}
\psset{algebraic=true}
\pspicture(-2,-0.5)(2,2)
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Syntax: De-highlighting Certain Commands in TexShop
There seem to be commands of various quality. A command like \section has some structural effects and differs considerably from commands like \dots or author-defined shortcuts (for example \eg for ...
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“xelatex: Command not found.” on network installation
I installed a TeX Live 2011 distribution on a network drive, actually an Apple Time Capsule. Even though normal TeXing with LaTeX (via pdfTeX) in TeXShop works fine, when I try to use the %!TEX ...
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My \mathcal{U} turns out to be curvy? (different than default)
My preamble :
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage[lmargin=3.81cm,tmargin=2.54cm,rmargin=2.54cm,bmargin=2.52cm]{geometry}
\linespread{1.5}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{ dsfont }
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TeXShop gives “(null) does not exist” error when compiling postscript [closed]
Mac: 10.7.3
TeXShop version: 2.47
When I try to compile .tex into a Post Script file, TeXShop gives me an error as follows:
(null) does not exist. Perhaps TeXLive was not installed or was ...
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Run multiple commands in TeXShop typeset [duplicate]
I am a user of biblatex-mla and I wish to run the whole bibliography generation workflow with a single click of "Typeset" in TeXShop.
pdflatex filename.tex
bibtex filename
pdflatex filename.tex
How ...
