This is a collection of clippings and scripts used to write Latex in BBEdit.
If you are using BBEdit 10.1 or newer, you can drag the .bbpackage file onto the BBEdit dock icon, and it will install it for you.
You can also do it on the command line:
$ cd Library/Application\ Support/BBEdit/
$ mkdir Packages # if it doesn't already exists
$ cd Packages
$ git clone git://github.com/bbedit/BBEdit-latex.bbpackage.git
Since, at that point, you're already in the proper directory, you may want to open up the README markdown document, and INSTALL shell worksheet (to install software this package depends on)
$ bbedit BBEdit-latex.bbpackage/readme.md
$ bbedit BBEdit-latex.bbpackage/install.worksheet
The purpose of the package is to make things easier to typeset Latex using BBEdit. The purpose is not to make a complete catalog of all commonly used latex commands.
In particular, commands without arguments such as \alpha or \times are almost never included as clippings. The reason is that BBEdit automatically suggests words that you have been using in your document, which is more likely to be helpful than a list of all possible keywords.
Also included are commands that may be useful, but only once in a while, so that you are likely to forget their names or how to use them. (such as accents and matrices). Commands which lend themselves well to keyboard shortcuts (such as inverse, mathbb, and display math) are included as well. You are responsible for setting your own keyboard shortcuts using the clippings palette.
A note on using clippings:
Clippings do not have backslashes in their names, but they do have backslashes in their definitions. So if you begin typing mathbb and then select the correct clipping, \mathbb{} will be inserted. On the other hand, if you begin typing \mathbb and then select the clipping, the result will be \\mathbb{}, which is not correct.
I find the following scripts useful. They are written by Nathan unless otherwise noted.
This opens the pdf version of your Latex document using TeXShop and asks TeXShop to typeset it.
TeXShop needs to be installed on your computer.
For best results, you should check the box marked "Configure for External Editor" in the "On Startup" section of the "Source" tab of the TeXShop preferences.
This applescript prompts for the two arguments of the \DeclareMathOperator command, and then inserts the appropriate command in the preamble, all without losing your place in the document. Definitely worth a keyboard shortcut.
Type in the name of a package, and this script will attempt to find the documentation file, using texdoc.
This script brings up a list of all the most useful KOMA options. You can select one or more, and it will insert a \KOMAoptions command into the document.
If the document is part of a git repository, this script defines a command \RevisionInfo that prints the current git revision information. It then typsets the document and then deletes the command.
To make this useful to you, you will need to put the \RevisionInfo command somewhere in your document (e.g. in a header or watermark). Furthermore, you should include the command \providecommand{\RevisionInfo}{}, which will cause \RevisionInfo to be blank unless otherwise defined.
The idea is that when you usually typeset, the info will not be printed. Only under certain circumstances (e.g. you are going to print it out or email it to someone) do you want to include the revision information. One benefit to this method is that if someone else needs to typeset the document and they do not have the full git repository or even know what git is, everything will work.
This also requires TeXShop to be installed on your computer.
This is a script by Ramón M. Figueroa-Centeno that invokes ChkTeX on your document and displays the results in a nice format. You need to have ChkTeX installed for this to work. (For more information on ChkTeX, see
http://baruch.ev-en.org/proj/chktex/.) ChkTeX is included in the TeXLive package. Alternatively, if you use homebrew, you can install it using brew install chktex.
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