Re: [toolbox] LaTeXiT 1.2 beta

[Will R. <wi...@gu...>]

Hi Pierre,

Thanks for your work on this program.
Is there any word from the TeXType project on their competing product?

On 3 Jul 2005, at 7:30 PM, Pierre Chatelier wrote:

>> [in the error manager] so if it could be reliably determine what  
>> the offending token is it would be nice to see that as well.
> For now, I would prefer not to. I prefer to be less precise, but  
> ensure that the error-line is ok, rather than trying to deduce the  
> faulty token, with the risk of getting wrong and give a bad  
> indication. However, since LaTeXiT is open source and will be a  
> toolbox project, if anybody has the knowledge to improve that, this  
> will be no problem I think. Do you agree with this opinion ?

Sounds great!
A log-file parser sounds like a pretty handy tool that many front  
ends could use. I know Jonathan Fine was interested in such a thing a  
little while back on comp.text.tex...

>>  - I think I like the use of those things that look like tabs but  
>> are actually buttons. The old school way would be to use radio  
>> buttons, but I'm undecided if these things are actually better  
>> than radio buttons.
> This thing is called a "segmented control"; it was already  
> available with Panther, but with Tiger, it is directly usable from  
> InterfaceBuilder. At the very beginning of LaTeXiT, I was using  
> radio buttons, because I did not know the existence of segmented  
> controls. A friend of mine told me about that, I and find that in  
> this context, it is much more beautiful.

Yep, I think I like it!

>> - For a future version, it'd be good to add a toolbar for the  
>> LaTexise
> A toolbar ? For what purpose ?
>
>> button as well as a button for the drawer, etc.
> Do you mean, to open/close the drawers ? Oh, I understand, now :  
> putting this buttons in the toolbar. Mmmh, it seems to me that my  
> toolbar would be very "poor" (only two button), so it would not be  
> very nice.

Let's keep it in mind for later -- I think there's more that could be  
put in there than you think :)

For the latest beta, I don't have much to say -- it's looking pretty  
nice to me. I would second the notion to have the margins stick, but  
I think you're determined to do this anyway. I would just leave them  
on 1pt or 1.5pt top and bottom, probably, and rarely adjust them  
manually.

Once again, thanks!

Will