Gain access to the content of files of multiple formats including standard ones like PDF and more complex variations such as PDFTeX and PDFLaTeX. The viewing mode along with editing capabilities are fully customizable. Options to change the typeset, macros or tags are provided as well.
TexShop is a straightforward previewer and editor for TeX. Due to its support of TeX, this program allows creating complex documents that are readily shareable with others without distorting their appearance. Thanks to this, a document created with this tool will look exactly the same irrespective of the operating system or editor. Such software is very popular among the scientific and academic community, mainly to edit their publications.
The program has a neat and austere interface, a design which in some way matches its purpose and intended users. In this regard, most of the interface is devoted to viewing the document. There is an unobtrusive toolbar on top, from where you can adjust the typeset and the language. Fortunately, there are various templates available so that you do not need to start from scratch. Besides, the tool supports using macros to automate your work.
The preferences are conveniently organized into tabs. You can go there if you need to change the default fonts, set a different type of encoding or switch themes. Likewise, it is possible to set a synchronization method if it is necessary. The program requires a previous installation of Text to work properly. Besides, it is required to specify its path on preferences.
In general, TeXShop allows users to take advantage of a powerful typographic system as TeX to create and share their documents. Therefore, this product is likely to be most appreciated by mathematicians, physicists and other specialists who need to use a lot of symbols and do not want to run the risk of losing them when their documents are reviewed on a different machine.
v4.4 [Sep 21, 2019]
During typesetting, it is not possible to cut and paste text from the console, but cut/paste works after typesetting ends. If there is an error, TeX waits for further input but cut/paste remains inactive. Pushing RETURN until typesetting ends will make it active. If the user pushes ABORT, cut/paste remained inactive in earlier versions of TeXShop, but now it becomes active.
In single window mode, several Preview menu items were deactivated. Now most remain active.
A similar deactivation occurs in the Source menu; the five items between "Duplicate" and "Revert" are deactivated. Many of these items behave unexpectedly in Single Window Mode because they only change the source file, so the active Source and Preview are no longer related. Moreover, none of these menu items is in the TeXShop source code, as can be verified by opening the source in XCode. Instead, they are added to the menu automatically by Cocoa when Automatic Saving is activated. Because they are entirely encoded in Cocoa, changing their behavior for Single Window mode could lead to instabilities in file saving behavior, and instability in that system would be intolerable. So in single window mode, these items are still disabled in TeXShop 4.42.
The Macintosh uses Uniform Type Identifiers (UTI) to identify various kinds of files: tex files, latex files, pdf files, html files, etc. On other operating systems, these types are often determined by file extensions: .tex, .ltx, .pdf., .html, etc. Macintosh programs contain a file named Info.plist which, among other things, associates file extensions used by the program with corresponding UTI's.
