That's the idea.

Per Rich's suggestion, I've tried sending this through Pandoc and it's 
definitely closer. My source file has a bunch of hand tweaked stuff in it, 
so I still need to figure out how to handle a number of special cases.

On Friday, January 24, 2020 at 11:19:10 AM UTC-5, Sam Hathaway wrote:
>
> Christopher,
>
> Can you remind me exactly what you’re trying to do?
>
> Is your goal to open a LaTeX file in BBEdit and select “Preview in BBEdit” 
> to see the PDF document generated by pdflatex?
>
> Thanks.
> -sam
>
> On 24 Jan 2020, at 10:55, Christopher Finazzo wrote:
>
> Still no luck.
>
> As I mentioned before, the Makefile is darn close to UNIX 101: A default 
> rule which calls pdtlatex on the input file via redirection. I realize my 
> request is closer to something that Preview.app should handle, but short of 
> filing a bug w/ Apple - which has even less chance of being seen - this is 
> the next best outlet. Furthermore, I suspect that Sam is correct in his 
> assertion about BBEdit's preview not understanding TeX input, even if it is 
> contained in a shell script.
>
> Maarten,
>
> I think I remember coming across your scripts in the past but was unsure 
> if they still worked on more modern versions of BBEdit, I'll give it a shot 
> and see how things go.
>
> On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 4:52:29 PM UTC-5, Maarten Sneep wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 2020-01-22, at 21:33, Sam Hathaway <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> But the bigger problem is: I don’t think BBEdit can accept PDF data from 
>> a preview filter. It wants HTML. It might be possible to embed the PDF 
>> output in HTML, but I don’t know how to do that.
>>
>> Personally I’d just use Skim to view the PDF output. It has an 
>> auto-reload function.
>>
>>
>> Not only that, it also is pretty easy to set up synchronisation of the 
>> cursor with your position in the preview, and the reverse: to go from 
>> preview to source.
>>
>> You may want to try these scripts: https://msneep.home.xs4all.nl/latex/
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Maarten
>>
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