TeXShop 5.60 Beta 10

This is a pre-release of TeXShop 5.60 for testing. TeXShop 5.59 remains the current release. Please keep a copy of 5.59 if you depend on TeXShop for daily work.

This beta is not offered through TeXShop's automatic updates. Download it here and install it manually. When TeXShop 5.60 is released, it will be offered to this beta as a normal update.

Installation

Download TeXShop-5.60-beta-10.zip, extract it, and copy TeXShop.app to Applications (replacing 5.59), or run it from another folder. The application is signed and notarized, and runs on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs with macOS 14.6 or later. A TeX distribution such as MacTeX is required for typesetting.

Changes since Beta 9

• The dictionaries under Settings → Spell Checking are now listed by each language’s own name, such as English (United States), English (United Kingdom) or Deutsch, instead of identifiers such as en and en_GB. A dictionary stored in an earlier form, such as en_US or English, is shown as chosen, and documents are checked in the language shown; a chosen dictionary that is no longer installed still appears under its name. Reported by Herb Schulz (#32).
• A dictionary chosen under Settings → Spell Checking, or automatic language detection, now applies at once to the open documents, not only to documents opened later. When no document’s source window is in front, it is also used at launch, after a document is closed and when it is chosen, so the Spelling and Grammar panel shows it from the start. A document keeps the language of its % !TEX spellcheck line, or a language chosen for it in the Spelling and Grammar panel. Reported by Herb Schulz (#32).
• Choosing Automatic Language under Settings → Spell Checking turns on automatic language detection again when TeXShop runs in a language other than English. From Beta 3 to Beta 9 it stored the translated title of the choice as a dictionary instead; such a stored choice is now read as Automatic Language.
• Opening a file with a % !TEX spellcheck line no longer changes the spelling language of the document that was in front.

Added in Beta 9

• Fix the cursor jumping to the end of the file, and typed characters going missing, while editing files in folders synced by OneDrive, Google Drive and other File Provider services. When such a service updates the file’s attributes or writes the same contents again, TeXShop now keeps the text, the selection, the scroll position and the undo history. Unsaved edits are no longer replaced by a change made elsewhere; TeXShop reports the change when the document is saved. When the file does change and TeXShop reloads it, the selection and the visible part of the text stay where they were. Reported by Steuard (#29).
• Let the Experiment console float with the Experiment source and preview panels, so that it comes in front of them when an Experiment is typeset and with Show Console (Command-0); before, the panels always covered it. When Settings › Console shows the console only when an error occurs, the Experiment console now comes to the front when TeX reports an error or waits for input. Reported by Uwe Schmock (#8).
• In the Multi-Page and Double Multi-Page display formats, a link popup now always appears below the link, or above it with Shift, so it no longer covers the text next to the link; it keeps its size and only moves sideways to stay in view. A popup whose target is near the bottom of its page no longer fills up with material from above the target: it becomes lower, and in these continuous formats it goes on with the top of the next page, so a statement broken by a page break can be read in one popup, scrolled into in a pinned popup, and selected across both pages. Suggested by Uwe Schmock (#14).
• With Link Popups turned off, hover over an internal link with the Command key held down to see its popup anyway. Command keeps its meaning of the larger popup, and Shift and Option work as usual; with Link Popups on, nothing changes. Suggested by Uwe Schmock (#30).
• In the Preview window, the contextual menu opened over an internal link (Control-click or right-click) has a new item “Split Window with Link”. It shows the linked place in the other part of a split window, splitting the window first if needed, while the part with the link stays where it is; the other part keeps its magnification and display format, and Back takes it back. Suggested by Uwe Schmock (#31).
• Dragging the divider of a Preview window split into a top and a bottom part no longer makes the two parts wobble, and a part pushed out of sight at the top or the bottom of the window comes back with the same text at its top. Reported by Uwe Schmock (#24).
• Changing the height of a Preview window split into a top and a bottom part now keeps the text at the top of both parts. Suggested by Uwe Schmock (#24).
• The Back/Forward item of the Preview toolbar and of the single window toolbar now shows the same thin chevrons as Apple’s Preview, grouped in one capsule. Back or Forward is dimmed when there is no page to go back or forward to, and the item no longer stays highlighted after a click. Suggested by Bruno Voisin.
• Each of the five mouse tools in the toolbar of the Preview window and of the single window now has its own tool tip with its name and what it does, for example “Scroll: drag to move the document”, instead of “Change Mouse Mode” for all of them. Suggested by Uwe Schmock (#28).

Added in Beta 8

Some menu item titles changed in Beta 8. Shortcuts assigned to TeXShop’s menu items in System Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts → App Shortcuts are matched by title and may no longer apply. Please assign menu shortcuts under Settings → Keyboard → Menu Shortcuts in TeXShop instead; those assignments do not depend on the titles.

• Switch Views exchanges the two parts of a split Preview window completely. Each part keeps its size, so a divider that was dragged away from the middle moves to the other side, and each part takes along its place, display format, magnification, selection and pinned internal-link preview. Switching again gives back the original arrangement. As before, the top (or left) part is the one that stays when the window is unsplit. Suggested by Uwe Schmock (#25).
• The whole-number fields under Settings → Editor → Format, and the window opacity fields, have arrow buttons, and the Format fields accept only digits and explain their five settings. A value saved outside a field’s range applies as the nearest end of the range.
• Experiment typesetting starts quickly again for a document in a large folder or a cloud-synced folder such as Dropbox. Beta 6 and Beta 7 cloned the whole folder before every Experiment; the files are now cloned one by one, and files whose contents are not on this Mac are not downloaded for it.
• The manual and the help explain that new link popups do not appear while a pinned popup is open in the same view, and what to do when popups no longer appear: a pinned popup may be open out of sight, and Escape dismisses it. Suggested by Uwe Schmock (#14).
• The window that shows the source and the Preview side by side remembers where the divider was last dragged, as the share of the window given to the source, and opens every such window with the divider there, also when TeXShop restores the window at launch. The source keeps its share when it is on the right. Suggested by Felix Finster (#26).
• When a drag of a pinned link popup, for example of its top edge up to the toolbar, ends with the pointer outside the popup, the pointer no longer keeps the resize arrows, the hand or the I-beam: it shows the cursor of the preview’s tool over the preview and the arrow elsewhere. Reported by Uwe Schmock (#14).
• In a split Preview window where both parts show a pinned link popup, Escape dismisses the popup of the active part, the part clicked last, and then the one in the other part. Reported by Uwe Schmock (#14).
• The page number box in the toolbar works for the lower (or right) part of a split Preview window: a page number moves the active part, and the box shows that part’s page. Reported by Uwe Schmock (#14).
• Preview and single-window toolbars that had both the arrow-only and the page-and-arrow pairs of Previous Page and Next Page buttons, which have looked the same since Beta 6, show the pair once. Section 17.6 of the manual tells these buttons apart from the Back/Forward item. Reported by Uwe Schmock (#27).
• The first entries of the outline in the Preview window’s drawer are no longer hidden under its header when the drawer is opened or after typesetting. Reported by Uwe Schmock (#19).
• Always Watch for PDF Changes by Other Apps (formerly Automatic Preview Update) now also covers sources edited in TeXShop’s own editor. Even when it is off, a PDF rewritten by another app, such as latexmk, is reloaded, keeping the page and zoom, when you return to TeXShop or the preview. The hidden setting AutoReloadExternalPDF is removed.
• The settings window explains what “Configure for External Editor” and the right-to-left setting for Arabic, Hebrew and Persian do, and the manual gives the right name of the RightJustifyIfAny hidden setting.
• The list in the sidebar of the Settings window no longer scrolls sideways; long category names wrap within its width.
• Experiment with Plain TeX, MetaPost or ConTeXt chosen in the toolbar or in a % !TEX program line stops with a beep, as it does for other engines it cannot use, instead of trying to run an engine file that does not exist.
• A macro whose contents begin with --applescript or -- applescript and are exactly 20 characters long now runs as an AppleScript; it used to do nothing because of an internal error.
• Trash AUX Files in a chapter file that names its root document with % !TEX root trashes the root document’s auxiliary files, as the manual describes, whether or not the hidden setting AggressiveTrashAUX is set; with Option it also cleans the root document’s subfolders.
• The LaTeX template loads graphicx again (its line had been joined to a commented-out line), and the duplicate theme “DarkTheme 2” is no longer installed.
• The manual and the help are brought in line with TeXShop 5.60: they show the current Settings window, call TeXShop’s preferences Settings throughout, and correct the passages on Ghostscript, Experiment, localization, backup files and several hidden settings.
• The remaining English text in menus, windows, panels and dialogs is translated in all eleven localizations, with the standard macOS terms, and translated labels are no longer cut off.
• Japanese and Chinese menus, settings and dialogs, and the Japanese help, no longer put a space between Chinese characters or kana and Latin letters or digits, as macOS itself does; macOS adds the spacing when it draws the text. Shortcuts saved in an older KeyEquivalents.plist under titles with such a space still apply.
• Settings → Typesetting names the method pop-up “Typesetting Method” instead of “Personal Script”, and its choices and the matching Typeset menu items are “Direct PDF” and “Via DVI” instead of “Pdftex” and “TeX and DVI”. The path rows are “TeX Engines”, “Ghostscript” and “Second TeX Engines”, and the explanation of the last names the % !TEX useAlternatePath comment. Shortcuts in an older KeyEquivalents.plist that use the former titles still work.
• The command groups in Settings → Typesetting are called “Direct PDF” and “Via DVI”, like the Typesetting Method choices, instead of “pdfTeX” and “TeX + dvipdfmx / TeX + dvips + distiller”, and the Ghostscript group, whose transparency option applies to the Via DVI commands, follows them. The Shell Escape row is now “Confirm Shell Escape”, and “Save PostScript File” explains that it adds --keep-psfile to the Via DVI commands.
• Auto Setup says only “Not found” for a program it cannot find.
• When Ghostscript cannot be found, opening a .ps, .eps or .dvi file, or typesetting Via DVI with dvips, says “Ghostscript was not found. Install Ghostscript, then run Auto Setup in Settings → Typesetting.” instead of failing silently; typesetting that makes PDF directly or through dvipdfmx is not affected. The ps2pdf wrapper for -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY also finds Ghostscript in the PATH, so it no longer does nothing when the Ghostscript path in Settings has no ps2pdf.
• The manual and the help use the new names of the typesetting methods and the Paths settings, and the manual recommends assigning menu shortcuts under Settings → Keyboard rather than in macOS App Shortcuts.

Added in Beta 7

• Return or Enter in the console output, for example after clicking it to read the log, answers TeX as Return in the empty input field does, and moves the focus back to the input field. Text typed in the input field is kept and not sent. The Experiment console behaves the same. Sending a line just after TeX quits no longer makes TeXShop quit. Reported by Uwe Schmock (#8).
• On macOS 27, an enlarged page in single-page and two-page layouts keeps its horizontal position when Option or Command with the Up and Down Arrow keys, Space, Home, End or the page number field move to another page. A SyncTeX or Find result no longer moves the margins sideways: the view scrolls sideways only when the result is out of view. Reported by svb-bit (#9).
• The magnifying glass works at any preview magnification; it used to do nothing above 250%. It also shows the place under the pointer in PDFs whose page box does not start at the origin, such as cropped PDFs, has the same size on the screen at any magnification, and shows the page at 150% of its size on the screen (200%, 250% and 300% with Command, Option and Control). Reported by svb-bit (#9).
• The top of the Preview window stays where it is when the window is split or unsplit, at any magnification, and Switch Views exchanges exactly what the two views show, so the views no longer creep. Unsplitting keeps any scrolling of the top view. Reported by Uwe Schmock (#23).
• When the Preview window is split into a top and a bottom part, dragging the divider keeps the text at the top of each part where it is, like a sheet of paper laid over the lower part of a page. Suggested by Uwe Schmock (#24).
• The Experiment window shows the source like the document’s source (font, tabs, line spacing, wrapping, syntax colors, current line highlight, block cursor, invisible characters, line numbers and brace matching), and follows the theme’s background, text and insertion-point colors and the window opacity. Its preview has Scroll, Select Text, Magnify and Select PDF tools and Zoom Out, Zoom In and Zoom to Content buttons, and the bar below the source is narrow, with a small Typeset button.
• Text being composed with an input method, such as Japanese before it is committed, is left uncolored until it is committed or canceled. Typing Japanese no longer slows down by recoloring the visible text at every keystroke.
• Each bundled theme has expl3 colors that suit it.
• Settings has a Themes category, which contains only what themes store; the Dock icon choices are in General.
• The mark commands are in Edit → Marks. Insert Mark with Note (Control-Command-8) is always in the menu and turns selected text into the note.
• Dialog buttons are spaced as the Human Interface Guidelines describe. The macro editor edits its list with + and − buttons and a menu for Submenu, Separator and Duplicate, and shows its contents in the source font and the theme colors.
• The buttons of the OgreKit Find panel no longer draw over each other in any language.
• Settings → Preview → Display has a switch, “Do not turn pages by scrolling”. In Single Page and Two Page display, scrolling past the top or bottom of a page with the mouse wheel or the trackpad moves to the previous or next page, as in Apple’s Preview; with this switch on, scrolling stops at the edge of the page. It replaces “Do not scroll” for the page buttons, which had no effect. Suggested by svb-bit (#9).
• Open Style File is in the File menu, below Open, and finds its files with kpsewhich by default.
• The Home URL setting for the HTML window works, and opens the TeXShop web site by default.
• Settings that had no effect are removed: the Apple Distiller choice (macOS 14 removed /usr/bin/pstopdf, so PostScript is always converted with Ghostscript) and “Smooth text and line art”. Use Color Mapping and Foreground Prominence are in the Copy Images group, and ten settings have short explanations.

Added in Beta 6

• The outline in the Preview window’s drawer keeps the chapters and sections you opened, and its scroll position, when the document is typeset again. Suggested by Uwe Schmock (#19).
• After the first Experiment typesetting, the preview shows the top of the first page, where the output is, instead of the middle of the page. Suggested by Uwe Schmock (#20).
• The preview toolbar offers one pair of Previous Page and Next Page buttons, with page-and-arrow icons as in the Preview app, instead of two pairs that did the same. Toolbars that had the arrow-only pair show these buttons instead.
• Settings → Preview → Display has a switch, formerly a hidden setting, for whether link popups are on when a document is opened. Link Popups in the Preview menu still turns them on and off in an open document.
• Saving with utf.sty export no longer loses a line break or tab that is followed by a combining mark; the mark is written on its own instead of as a \CID command for a glyph that does not exist.
• Character Type Conversion writes circled weekdays as \ajMaruYobi instead of \ajKakkoYobi, and no longer confuses the circled rest character with the circled congratulation character.
• The bundled latexmk is updated to 4.89, provided by Herbert Schulz. It is used only when no latexmk is found on the PATH.
• A pinned internal-link preview now stays when the Preview window is split or unsplit, while another window is used, and when it is clicked with the magnifying glass, which then acts as the text tool inside it. Unsplitting moves a preview pinned in the part that goes away to the remaining part. Suggested by Uwe Schmock (#14).
• Parts of the linked page no longer show around an internal-link preview while the Preview window scrolls. Reported by Uwe Schmock (#21).
• Experiment typesetting finds pictures and other files as when the document is typeset, also with paths that begin with ./, such as \graphicspath{{./figures/}}, and resolves \ref, \pageref and \cite from the document’s last typesetting. The Experiment folder holds copy-on-write clones of the items next to the document, so what the typesetting writes leaves the document’s folder alone. Suggested by Uwe Schmock (#8).
• The default spelling exclusions skip the arguments that are not prose, such as keys, labels, colors and units, of the commands of common packages, including amsmath, mathtools, xcolor, hyperref, cleveref, biblatex, natbib and siunitx, and the column specification of tabularx and tabulary. A command that the document defines itself keeps its own definition. Provided by Ralph Martin.

Added in Beta 5

• Interface text uses the system font in every language. Some windows and panels in the Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Spanish localizations, the Find panel, Macro Editor, LaTeX panel and Matrix panel of several localizations, and Character Info used fixed fonts such as Hiragino, AquaKana, Heiti, Apple SD Gothic Neo, Lucida Grande, Helvetica or Times New Roman.
• Labels that were cut off now show their whole text, such as Scale in the magnification panel, the examples in the root file sheet, Colonnes: in the French Matrix panel and Genéricos in the Spanish LaTeX panel.
• Internal-link previews show a margin of about 5% around the text column, so a pinned preview has room to scroll (#12).
• Pinned internal-link previews stay until Escape, also when the Preview window is clicked, and can be dragged almost out of the window. The toolbar's tool applies inside them: with any tool but the hand, text in a pinned preview can be selected, highlighted and copied. The pointer shows the chosen tool again after leaving a preview (#14).
• Internal-link previews show the label printed on the target page, such as “Page 157”, in their lower right corner, as Skim does, and the “Go to page” tool tip no longer covers the text (#17).
• In Settings, the four invisible-character pop-up menus have one width, and color wells for colors that are always drawn opaque no longer offer opacity.
• On macOS 26 and later, toolbar buttons use the standard Liquid Glass appearance, and Typeset is shown as the prominent button. In Settings, the content scrolls under the toolbar as in System Settings.
• Opening a file decodes only the \UTF commands that saving with utf.sty export writes (characters outside JIS X 0208). Commands for other characters, commands after an escaped backslash such as \\UTF, and surrogate code points are left as they are.
• Converting to \CID uses only Adobe-Japan1 glyphs and the glyph variants Hiragino registers; emoji and other sequences are left as they are. Converting \UTF/\CID commands back decodes each command once and skips escaped ones.
• Modified NFD keeps every leading U+FEFF.

Added in Beta 4

• Character Type Conversion in the Edit menu and the contextual menu: hiragana and katakana, fullwidth and halfwidth digits and letters, Unicode characters and ajmacros or \UTF/\CID commands, and curly quotes to TeX quotes.
• Unicode Normalization in the Edit menu and the contextual menu (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD, Modified NFC and Modified NFD).
• Swap with Clipboard in the Edit menu.
• #PASTE# in macros and key bindings stands for the text on the clipboard.
• Console output can be selected and copied while TeX runs or waits after an error. Moving the focus out of the input field no longer sends an empty line to TeX.
• Control characters in the source are shown as U+FFFD.
• Fullwidth letters, digits and symbols can be colored with the new Fullwidth colors under Settings → Appearance. The bundled themes define them; existing themes show these characters like other text.
• Changed behavior: \UTF commands are decoded when a file is opened, also when utf.sty export is off.
• Command-1 in a root document’s preview returns to the file that was typeset; previews opened at a fixed position no longer cover one another exactly; Trash Aux Files also removes leftover .synctex.gz(busy) files.
• Saving with Automatic UTF-8-Mac to UTF-8 Conversion no longer writes an empty file when the text consists only of CJK compatibility ideographs.
• Search Settings no longer matches labels that the Settings window does not show.

Main changes since 5.59

• Critical fix: Stop now actually stops TeX. Starting another typesetting job also stops the previous job and its child processes.
• Experiment runs as its own job with its own console, and no longer interrupts or disturbs ordinary typesetting (#8).
• PDF preview position:
  • Reloading keeps the viewing position, in both split panes (#9).
  • On macOS 27, Next Page and Previous Page keep the same position on the page (#9).
  • Changed behavior: when a zoomed page can scroll vertically, the Up and Down Arrow keys stop at the page edge instead of turning the page. Use Command-Right/Left Arrow, Page Up/Page Down, or Space to change pages (#9).
  • A preview reopened during typesetting keeps its page (#5).
• Internal-link previews:
  • Hold Option to pin a preview, move the pointer while explaining it, and press Escape to dismiss it (#10).
  • A pinned preview can be moved, resized and scrolled (#14).
  • Previews show the whole text column of the target page (#12) and stay within the page and the window (#7).
• LaTeX-aware spell checking, based on suggestions from Ralph Martin, with spelling-exclusion rules, a replacement field and Change All.
• A redesigned Settings window, including keyboard shortcut editing, automatic detection of TeX and Ghostscript installations, and settings that were formerly hidden.
• Source files keep being monitored after external editors save them; PDFs changed by other applications are reloaded while keeping position and zoom (including the contribution from Daisuke Nishihama in PR #1).
• Encoding detection when opening files without an encoding magic comment, and safer saving in UTF-8, UTF-16 and Japanese encodings.
• Text moved out of a comment line by a line break no longer keeps the comment color (#16).
• Command-0 shows the document's console (#2).
• The Preview window no longer creeps when it is split, unsplit or its views are switched, and dragging the divider keeps the text of both parts in place (#23, #24).
• A new app icon, and optional historical Dock icons (#3).

The full list is in the TeXShop 5.60 release notes.

Please try in particular

1. Look through windows, panels and toolbars in your language: text in the system font, and no labels cut off. On macOS 26 and later, check the toolbar buttons and the prominent Typeset button.
2. The new Edit menu commands (Character Type Conversion, Unicode Normalization, Swap with Clipboard) on Japanese text, with and without a selection.
3. Copying console output while TeX waits at an error, then answering in the input field.
4. Opening files that contain \UTF commands, and saving with Automatic UTF-8-Mac to UTF-8 Conversion.
5. Typeset a long document and press Stop; typeset again while a job is running.
6. While a long document is typesetting, run Experiment on a selection. Both PDFs should update, and errors in either should be answerable in its own console.
7. Zoom the preview and typeset repeatedly; use Command-Right/Left Arrow and the Up/Down Arrow keys in single-page, two-page and continuous layouts.
8. Hover over internal links, pin a preview with Option, then move, resize and scroll it; select text in it with the text tool, and click in the Preview window while it is pinned.
9. Spell checking in documents with mathematics, macros and several languages.
10. Settings: open each section, change a few settings, and check that they take effect.
11. Opening and saving files in non-UTF-8 encodings, and with an external editor or a tool that writes the PDF.
12. Open chapters and sections in the drawer’s outline, then typeset again; run Experiment for the first time on a selection.
13. Customize the preview toolbar with the Previous Page and Next Page buttons, and turn on the link popups switch in Settings → Preview → Display.
14. Pin an internal-link preview, then split and unsplit the Preview window, copy text from the preview into another window, and click in it with the magnifying glass.
15. Spell checking in documents that use the packages listed above.
16. Experiment on a paragraph with pictures (also with ./ paths) and references, after typesetting the document once.
17. Click in the console output after a TeX error, then press Return; do the same in an Experiment console.
18. On macOS 27, enlarge a page in single-page or two-page layout, move to other pages with Option or Command and the arrow keys, and Command-click in the source; use the magnifying glass at a high magnification.
19. Split and unsplit the Preview window, use Switch Views several times, and drag the divider of a top-and-bottom split.
20. Type Japanese with an input method in the source and in an Experiment window; look at the Experiment window with a dark theme, and try its preview tools.
21. Dialogs, the macro editor, Edit → Marks and the Find panel in your language.
22. Scroll with the mouse wheel or the trackpad past the edge of a page in Single Page and Two Page display, with “Do not turn pages by scrolling” off and on.
23. Split the Preview window, drag the divider away from the middle, and use Switch Views twice.
24. Drag the divider of the window that shows the source and the Preview side by side, then open other documents and quit and reopen TeXShop.
25. Run Experiment on a document in a large folder or in a Dropbox folder.
26. Typeset with latexmk or another tool that writes the PDF, with “Always Watch for PDF Changes by Other Apps” off and on, and return to TeXShop.
27. Open the drawer’s outline, before and after typesetting; drag the edges of a pinned link popup toward the toolbar.
28. Split the Preview window, pin a link popup in each part, click in one part and press Escape; type a page number in the toolbar while the lower part is active.
29. In Settings → Typesetting, look at the new names, and open a .ps or .eps file with and without Ghostscript.
30. Edit a source file in a folder synced by OneDrive, Google Drive or iCloud Drive for a while, and watch the cursor.
31. Hover over internal links in the Multi-Page display, with and without Shift and Command, including links to the bottom of a page; turn Link Popups off and hover with Command.
32. Control-click an internal link and choose Split Window with Link, in an unsplit window and in both parts of a split window.
33. Drag the divider of a top-and-bottom split and resize the window; hold the pointer over the mouse tools; use Back and Forward.
34. Typeset an Experiment with an error, with Settings → Console set to “always” and to “when error occurs”.
35. Choose dictionaries, and Automatic Language, under Settings → Spell Checking while documents are open, also with TeXShop in another language, and compare with the Spelling and Grammar panel; look at the panel right after starting TeXShop, and open a file with a % !TEX spellcheck line while another document is in front.

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