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It works pretty well and it catches in a 'jumpable way' most of the errors and warnings that pdflatex produces. I leave it to others to customize the path to pdflatex...

This would work indeed, although I have the feeling it's a bit overkill to do this with perl ;)

Hey, it's only 56 characters in Perl!! :) Anyway, I wanted to get it working before Allan comes out with an eventual fix.

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Preview has an annoying habit of not refreshing files when they are re-opened; otherwise this would be a complete replacement for TexShop.

I use TeXniscope[1], which speaks a bit of applescript and is able to refresh the pdf.

Excellent recommendation! I changed my command to open TeXniscope instead.

- Eric