[Alphacocoa-devel] Alpha Release 9.2 (Gianfar)

[Bernard D. <bde...@or...>]

Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce the release of a new version of Alpha. This is Alpha 9.2 ("Gianfar <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/AlphaStar.html>") for Mac OS X 10.11 or greater (El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina). 
  
This new version introduces important new features, especially in TeX mode which now has its own internal pdf viewer and features full two-way synchronization between the latex sources and the pdf output. 

See at the end of this message, the changes contained in this new release. 

All versions of Alpha are named after a star. So, for this new release, meet Gianfar <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/AlphaStar.html>, which is λ Draconis, the λ star of the Draco constellation. 

Beware: the Maverick (10.9) and Yosemite (10.10) versions of OS X are no longer supported. The latest version of Alpha running on these two systems is 9.0.3. 

Please, read the release notes which will be displayed the first time you launch Alpha and can be accessed later from the Help ↣ Developer Help menu. 

Here is the URL to download the disk image: 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/alphacocoa/files/9.2/Alpha_9.2.dmg.zip/download <https://sourceforge.net/projects/alphacocoa/files/9.2/Alpha_9.2.dmg.zip/download> (32.66M) 

The MD5 checksum is: 8a6d4afd6618aa77357379545b95679d 
The SHA1 checksum is: 1514b5e833d48e64ca874705f2559ffb1767a3f5 
The RMD160 checksum is: 3429930c217e412885142e85cd3502c346833e7b 
The SHA256 checksum is: e019a22e0e6d732e93d1fdc640f774b62b6e78a34b2f4258b713fd390179c36e 

If you find problems with the application, don't hesitate to post bug reports. They are essential to keep track of the deficiencies. See Alpha's Bug Tracker <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/>. 

Thank you for using Alpha. 
Cheers, 
Bernard
 <>Changes from previous version

New core command [synctex] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Reference/synctex.html> to handle synchronization between LaTeX source files and the PDF output. This relies on the synctex library written by Jérôme Laurens (see Synchronization for TeX <https://github.com/jlaurens/synctex> on Github).
New view PDFView <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Reference/view.html#view_pdfview> for the [view] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Reference/view.html> command.
New built-in PDF viewer for LaTeX mode with full two-way synchronization.
New dynamic commands associated with each PDFView <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Reference/view.html#view_pdfview> view for manipulating the content of the pdf document. See the $pdfToken command <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Reference/pdfViewer.html> help page.
New core command [diffFiles] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Syntax/diffFiles.html> to perform a diff between two text files.
Modified the behavior of the [search] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Syntax/search.html> command in the case of a backward regexp search: the command does not match anymore at the starting position. The semantics of the -l option has also been slightly modified in the case of a backward literal search.
Improved indentation in C modes.
Revision of Alpha's Compare <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/CompareHelp.html> package based on the new [diffFiles] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Syntax/diffFiles.html> core command. Alpha does not use external tools anymore for executing comparisons, in particular the extra application DiffBOA.app has retired and has been removed from the bundle.
The helper application AlphaUpdater.app has been removed and is replaced by shell scripts invoked directly by the core.
New core command [windowOrder] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Syntax/windowOrder.html> in replacement of 'windowVisibility -order'.
Support for Sweave files in TeX mode. When editing a sweave file, the Process submenu of the LaTeX menu now has two items called "Sweave" and "Sweave and Typeset". The R software <file:///Users/bernardo/Workspace/Devel/Code/AlphaCocoa/Output/Release/9.2/www.r-project.org> must be installed for these commands to work.
New submenu Other Windows in Open Windows menu for non-document windows.
The following bugs have been fixed (but remain open until the fix is confirmed):
Ticket #237: Adapt the size of the selected region when a search-and-replace reduce it <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/237/>
Ticket #239: pageHeader prints untitled instead of document title <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/239/>The following tickets have been closed:
Ticket #235: spellchecker <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/235/>
Ticket #236: spellchecker <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/236/>
Ticket #238: Typesetting a TeX project from a component file <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/238/>