{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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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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What are the advantages of TeXShop over TeXworks?
The TeXworks homepage states that "It is deliberately modeled on Dick Koch’s award-winning TeXShop for Mac OS X" and it seems that today people are using both. Both are delivered with TexLive and ...
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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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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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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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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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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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TeXShop: Force spaces instead of tabs
Is there a way to make TeXShop insert an arbitrary number of spaces when I press the tab key instead of inserting a tab? This functionality is in TeXnicle and I really like it, but TeXShop is my ...
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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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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 customize the default xelatex command in TexShop for OSX
I am trying to make use of the minted package for source code highlighting, and am running into an error telling me I need to install pygmentize combined with an message regarding the --shell-escape ...
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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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BiBTeX: I couldn't open file name 'myBib.aux'
My article paper.tex compiles fine, but myBib.bib doesn't.
$ pdflatex paper.tex
$ bibtex myBib
I couldn't open file name `myBib.aux'
I happen to be using TeXShop, but the command line is ...
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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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Typesetting and Engine settings that can help improve compile time?
Are there any specific options that I can enable or disable to improve compiling time ? I don't understand most of what is included in the settings so I can't decide on my own (new LaTeX user here).
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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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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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How do you get TeXShop to automatically insert line breaks?
As I am using version control (hg) it is convenient to have hard line breaks in my tex files.
Is there a way to set up TeXShop so that it automatically inserts line breaks? (For instance, as I ...
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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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Are there any input assist tools in TexShop like the one in WinEdt?
By "input assist tools", I mean the graphical interface in WinEdt with tabs like 'symbols','Greeks','maths'.
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Using Sweave and XeLaTeX
I'm doing a report that is heavy in R but also would like to use system fonts, so I was hoping to be able to use Sweave and XeLaTeX.
My preferred tex editor is TexShop (Mac 10.7), but it seems to ...
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Why does TeXShop add a dot after autocomplete
Why does TeXShop add a dot after auto-completing an environment? An example is shown in the following image:
I'm referring to the dot after \end{itemize}. If I don't delete it pdflatexmk can not ...
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Spellchecker does not recognize amsmath commands such as \cdot, \binom
Why are basic amsmath commands like \binom and \cdot treated as if they are misspelled in the TeX editor? I have included the amsmath package, and the code works fine. I'm curious as to why those red ...
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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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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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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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TeXShop doesn't remember file encoding
I am aware that this might not be the ideal place please move/close this if so.
So since yesterday I run into the following problem:
I use \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} and \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} in ...
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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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“makeindex” in Mac OS X (Snow Leopard)
I use LaTeX on a Mac, using TeXShop. It is possible to compile an index from within the TeXShop interface, except when I have more than one index (say, people and concepts) for the same text. In this ...
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Does TexShop automatically saves when you Typeset?
I always seem to compile the code but forget to save. Albeit I do save every now and then, but I want to know if it automatically saves when I compile the code, just incase my laptop hangs or ...
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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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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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Babel not working on OS X? [closed]
I'm using a MacBook Air, with OS X, and I have great difficulties in using Latex in my native language (serbian).
If I use the standard babel package in TexShop:
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
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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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TeXworks and Command Line Compilation ok, But TeXShop yields different result
Background:
As per my earlier question, Can't get real currfile if used in precompiled .fmt file, I am trying to speed up compilation by generating a .fmt file. The example below tests that the ...
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Bypass % !TEX TS-program =
Some LaTeX editors (TeXShop and TeXworks, for instance) allow a special comment line to define a default engine to use with a current document, like this :
% !TEX TS-program = pdflatex
It's really ...
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How to change the font of my TeX editor on Mac?
I use an editor named TeXShop, but there appears to be no choice for the font in this editor.
The font here is not for appearing in the final pdf file, but the font in the editor when I type.
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Need to Typeset twice for correct compile?
Whenever I press CMD+T in TexShop, the PDF created is not always updated correctly. I usually have to re-compile it to update the Table Of Contents and other changes I have made. How can I fix this ?
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Simplest way to add an Appendix?
I have looked around before posting and found many different methods to do an appendix. Is there no common way to add an appendix to a {report} format paper ?
The current one I use has this :
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How to run gnuplot/latex from inside texshop?
I was able to write a piece of code that drew a graph in gnuplot and then
using tikz embedded that into my TeX document and run it via Texshop. I am
not able to do that anymore. I need to run
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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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Declaring a math operator with cursor placement, e.g. expected value
I'd like to declare a new math operator \ev for representing the expected value, in the form: E<.> so that it looks like the following but with an argument
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installed package not running
I have TexShop installed on my Mac and I need to use the Slovak language in my LaTeX documents. Through the TexLive Utility, I found out that I have collection-langczechslovak installed, but when I ...
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TeXShop: disabling auto bracketing?
Whenever I used an underscore it automatically adds those curly brackets to it. Now sometimes thats nice, but sometimes you really dont need this. Is there a way to disable that feature? I roamed ...
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Fixing Quotation Marks in Large Blocks of Text
I am writing a casebook with a law professor using TexShop, and a large portion of project are legal cases, all of which have "quotes" and not ``quotes''
I know the programming difficulties of ...
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Change default color scheme to something else in TexShop
The default white background color is too difficult to
work with for long periods of time. I am trying to change this
color scheme to the famous color scheme "solarized" by Ethan Schoonover.
I can ...
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Lao, Vowels, XeLaTeX, fontspec
Can anyone see an error here?
I'm using \newfontfamily{\L}[Script=Lao]{Lao Sangam MN} to switch to Lao, then using \L{ວຽງຈັນ}, but getting ວຽງຈ ັນ in the PDF. No luck in other fonts (all ...
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Texshop grammatic correction [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Grammar-checking tool for use with LaTeX?
As a non-native English speaker, I would like to know if there is a grammar correction software available for TeXShop (Mac OS). ...
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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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Enable PDF commenting with TexShop
I'm using TexShop (Mac OS 10.5) to typeset a manuscript and I would like to share the generated PDF with some colleagues. In the process, I would like to add some comments to the generated PDF and ...
