Re: Alpha Release 9.2 (Gianfar)

[David C. <da...@pa...>]

Bernard-
I’m excited to get this working.

I just installed Alpha 9.2 on macOS 10.15.7.  Very recently set up from a clear Catalina install (on a brand new Mac).

Helper Applications -> TeX/LaTeX   is set to “Alpha-TeX”
Helper Applications -> PDF   is (also) set to “Alpha-TeX”  **

** I tried to choose “PDFView”, but Alpha then asks me to locate "app with ID 'net.sourceforge.pdfview’”.  Maybe it’s in the Alpha application bundle?  I looked in there and did not find it.  I stopped there and figured I’d ask about it, and left the pdf helper set to Alpha-TeX.

So configured, when I tex a file it processes fine, a pdf I can view in other applications is created, and a new Alpha window opens titled ‘filename.pdf” … but there’s no pdf visible, just a blank space where I would expect it to be, no page numbers in the “Page” box, nothing.

Is this because I haven’t found PDFView and set it as the PDF helper, or something else?

Thanks,
David Craig



> On Oct 20, 2020, at 11:14 PM, Bernard Desgraupes <bde...@or...> wrote:
> 
> 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/>
> 
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