iT E XMac, an Integrated T E X Environment for Mac OS X

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iTEXMac, an Integrated TEX Environment for Mac OS X
J’er?ome Laurens
Universit’e de Bourgogne
1 Introduction
iTEXMac is an integrated suite of three major components:
a text editor detailed in section 2, a PDF
viewer detailed in section 3, and a TEX front end
detailed in section 4. Some notes on installation
are followed by remarks concerning inter-application
communication in section 6 for other Mac OS X developers.
Finally, the pdfsync feature and the TEX
Wrapper are discussed in sections 7 and 8. Since
they concern the synchronization between the TEX
source and PDF output, and a definition for a shared
TEX document structure, both will certainly interest
the whole TEX community.
2 The Text Editor
iTEXMac can be used either with a built in text
editor or an external one. All standard text editors
like TextEdit, BBEdit, AlphaX, vi, and emacs are supported
and configuring iTEXMac for other editors is
very easy, even when coming from the X11 world.
The built in text editor comes with flavours similar
to emacs and AlphaX modes. It relies on a plugin
architecture that allows very different kinds of
user interfaces according to the type of…