#Textastic with git pdf
#Textastic with git zip
#Textastic with git mac

But it is a way to write in Textastic without having to keep a Prompt connection to my Mac as an active app in Split Screen. This is not nearly as convenient as pressing в‡§вЊP in Drafts-in fact, it requires five taps to compile and another to get back to the report file.

#Textastic with git pdf

On my Mac is a newly built PDF of the report. Rename that folder into asciidoc.tmbundle. Then you see another folder with the same name.

#Textastic with git zip

The system switches to Textastic and it asks if you want to unarchive the zip file. Shortcuts opens an SSH connection to my Mac, runs the three commands in build.sh, and returns to Textastic. Instead, it asks you for the application to open it. Most of them are Textastic-specific, but the Open InвЂ¦ option hands the text off to the standard iPad share sheet.ДЇrom here, I tap Shortcuts, then Run As Shell Script, and voila!. This brings down a menu with options for processing the text in the active file. To compile my LaTeX file, I tab over to build.sh and tap on the Sharing button in the top right corner. When IвЂ™m writing in Textastic, I keep the LaTeX source for the report in one tab and build.sh in another. WhatвЂ™s important is that you can put it in a tab in Textastic, because weвЂ™re going to send its contents to a Shortcut.ДЄll it does is log on to my Mac and run the commands that are passed into it as text. It can be a local file on your iPad or saved in the Textastic folder of iCloud. And although the commands will be run on a Macintosh, where report.tex is saved, build.sh doesnвЂ™t have to be saved there, certainly not in the same folder as the report. As you can see, theyвЂ™re saved in a file named build.sh, but the name doesnвЂ™t really matter. The only difference is that the directory ( ~/Dropbox/projects/test/report) and file name ( report.tex, but latexmk doesnвЂ™t need the extension) are given explicitly instead of as dictionary look-ups. Latexmk -pdf -interaction=nonstopmode report

These are the same commands I used in the PDFLaTeX shortcut from SaturdayвЂ™s post: bash: HereвЂ™s a file in Textastic with the commands needed to compile the LaTeX file over an SSH connection: But it does have a way of passing text to a Shortcut, so with a little trickery I can get around its limitations. Unfortunately, Textastic isnвЂ™t scriptable, so I canвЂ™t write an action for it the way I could with Drafts. This is great if IвЂ™m writing in Drafts, but what if IвЂ™m using another editor? Specifically, what if IвЂ™m using Textastic, which has good integration with Dropbox and LaTeX syntax highlighting? If my report has complex formatting, that highlighting makes it nicer to write LaTeX in Textastic than in Drafts. Searching multiple files works in Local Files, iCloud and external folders (such as other folders in iCloud Drive or Git repositories in Working Copy). But I have one more thing to say about writing in LaTeX on the iPad.ДЄ couple of days ago, I described a Drafts action and Shortcut that allow me to compile my LaTeX files on my Mac from my iPad. When your audience is mostly Apple users, the evening after a WWDC keynote address is probably not the best time to post anything that isnвЂ™t about the dayвЂ™s announcements. Next post Previous post LaTeX and Textastic