One of the features of MacTeX 2008 that I was looking forward to was its inclusion of SyncTeX, Jerome Laurens replacement for pdfsync.
There are two ways to call SyncTeX, from the command line and in source. From the command line simply use the argument -synctex=1, and from source include \synctex=1 in the preamble. The former […]
MacTeX 2008 has just been released. Here are some of the new features:
Packages in TeX Live 2008 can be updated over the internet. This is a major advance in the distribution. See documentation about the TeX Live Manager for details, and read the tlmgr man page. Additional documentation for the Mac is forthcoming; see the […]
When I first made the switch from Word to LaTeX, I felt the need for a dedicated LaTeX editor to provide help and guidance. Fortunately for OS X users, there is Dick Koch’s TeXShop. I was lucky. It did just what I expected and it comfortably eased me into the world of TeX. I no […]
After posting about the version control bundle, I gave it a test spin.
The version control bundle requires GNU awk. If gawk is not installed on your *nix system, this script will do it for you:
#!/bin/sh # # installgawk.sh # # A bash script to install the latest version of GNU awk. Be sure to set the variables to the […]
As I lamented in an earlier post, XeTeX, as cool as it is, still suffers from a paucity of documentation. (Though the situation is improving, and part of the problem is that the technology is relatively new and in flux.) Well, things have just improved. Michel Goossens has published online a working draft of The […]
Font management is one are where TeX is really showing its age. Installing fonts in a TeX tree is a daunting task for the uninitiated, to say the least. Doubtless, it would be very different if unicode existed when Donald Knuth wrote TeX.
Fortunately, XeTeX addressed some of these issues. XeTeX is an alternative TeX engine, […]
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