Typesets a selected input file using the current format
(or the format on the first line of the input file; see below). The window acts like a terminal during a TEX session.
One of the nicest things about TEX is that it behaves the same way
on a large range of different computer systems.
Virtually everything you read in The TEXbook will apply to the version
of TEX run by , and the same goes for Leslie Lamport's LATEX book
if you use that format.
A few extra features have been added in :
- TEX looks for ``
%&format'' on the first line of a selected
input file and, if present, uses the given format regardless of the
currently ticked format in the TEX menu.
- Input files can have either Return or Linefeed as the end-of-line character.
This means that TEX can read Unix text files unmodified and thus
avoid spurious
buf_size overflow errors.
- Most of TEX's capacity parameters are set at run-time in
a configuration file rather than at compile-time.
If you get a ``capacity exceeded'' error then
you should be able to overcome the problem by increasing the appropriate
parameter (see section
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).
- TEX will look for input files in the current folder first, then in
the folders specified by the
input_folders parameter.
Similarly, when looking for TFM files, TEX will look in the current folder
first and then in the folders specified by the tfm_folders parameter.
- New text files created by will have your chosen editor's signature,
so double-clicking on a new .log/.aux file will open it in the editor.
However, won't change the signature of an existing file, so if you
want to double-click on a .log file to start up , use ResEdit
or some other utility to change the file's creator signature to ``OTEX''.
- You can interrupt a TEX session at any time by typing Command-dot.
Depending on what it is currently doing, TEX usually responds immediately
with a suitable message and the ``
?'' prompt.
If you hit Command-dot at this stage
(or whenever the block cursor is visible) then TEX will immediately abort.
- TEX will continue typesetting in the background if you switch to another
application.