Jeroen van der Ham wrote:
the pdfsync utility described before and TextMate scripting ability is a sufficient solution for that, at least for me.
For me too.
Otherwise you're just relying on tinkering with it so long that it works and not understanding what is really happening.
Its possible that this is true, but it needn't be. You can understand *and* tinker.
Both LaTeX and ConTeXt are, after all usually (and always by default) "non-grid aligned" (in the way that e.g. InDesign or Quark are) and its a rare person indeed who can *always* foresee *precisely* (in terms of layout) how the TeX processor is going to deal with his/her input.
As for beginning users for LaTeX, I'd recommend not using TextMate, but TeXShop instead. Provides all the useful macros in a very easy way and includes one button preview as well.
Fair point. Its a fine one-stop shop indeed.
mark.