[TxMt] Latex Bundle: refreshing external viewers

[Adam R. Maxwell]

On Sep 8, 2007, at 13:43, Brad Miller wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I love using Skim for viewing the pdf files produced by LaTeX.  But  
> I don't like its auto-refresh behavior.  It seems buggy, (crashes on  
> auto-reload too often) and I hate having to click Auto every time  
> Skim restarts.

Have you filed a bug report with backtraces at <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=192583&atid=941981 
 >?  It should never crash.

> So, I added some applescript goo to the Typeset & View command to  
> tell Skim/TeXShop/TeXniscope to reload.
>
> This means you could uncheck the box in Skim, et. al. that tells  
> them to check for file updates and rely on TextMate to tell them  
> when to reload.  According to the TeX mailing list using applescript  
> is also more resource efficient than having the viewer watch for  
> file changes.
>
> Would others also prefer to have this part of the bundle?

At least for Skim, this would be my preferred option.  Then it's  
guaranteed to only try loading the file once, and can wait until all  
TeX runs are complete.

thanks,
Adam