[SVN] Beta 4 scheduled for monday night (UTC)

Allan Odgaard allan at macromates.com
Mon Jan 31 04:13:25 UTC 2005


Just to give you a heads up in case there's something you wish to 
commit or don't want included with the beta (and actually believe in my 
release schedule).

Beta 4 is mostly minor fixes (a dozen of these) but also a few new 
niceties like the much enhanced abbreviation matcher for the file 
chooser, completion in find panel text fields, the append to lines in 
selection allowing editing, and most interesting for the majority of 
this list (AFAIK) is the ability to set the output for commands to 
HTML.

I have LaTeX show its normal textual output in a nice dark grey with 
compile errors in black, these are of course anchors which move the 
caret to the erroneous line. If there are no errors, it will do a 
meta-refresh and show the generated PDF in this same output window 
(using the PDF Browser Plugin, as suggested by Eric Hsu) which is 
pretty neat if I may say so! ;)

I think this stuff has tons of potential -- I should extend the txmt 
URI scheme to also allow insertion of text/snippets, that way people 
can make their beloved palettes using HTML/CSS/JavaScript :)

Currently my only gripe about this new stuff is that it doesn't allow 
for keyboard navigation. But maybe I can add that, after all, Safari 
does allow to tab between links.

Also, specific for this LaTeX/PDF stuff, there's no way to keep the 
current page when recompiling a document -- but maybe the author of 
this plugin would be willing to work something out with me.




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