After a long period of inactivity, much of the content of this site had grown out of date or obsolete, and there are now far better resources available elsewhere online. Accordingly, I have removed most of the older material in order to focus on providing a small number of tools, listed below, that I can more easily maintain. I hope you find them useful.
– John (dataninja at gmail)
Stata language module for TextWrangler/BBEdit (updated March 2013)
Install to ~/Library/Application Support/TextWrangler/LanguageModules (replacing TextWrangler with BBEdit if you use the latter).
Build scripts for BBEdit and TextWrangler (updated April 2013)
These simple bash scripts allow you to call LaTeX and pandoc from within BBEdit or TextWrangler.
Installation: Unzip and copy the folder to ~/Library/Application Support/TextWrangler/Scripts, replacing “TextWrangler” with “BBEdit” if you use the latter. Keyboard shortcuts can be assigned using the Scripts Palette.
pandoc scripts: These scripts support conversion to docx, beamer and pdf. They can easily be modified to add new formats (such as html, epub, etc.).
LaTeX scripts: There are two LaTeX scripts, one to call pdflatex once and another to call it twice (for cross-references and bibliographic material). Both open the resulting pdf using the default viewer.
TeXShop comes with some pandoc build engines, but they don’t work on my machine; these scripts do.
Installation: Copy the engines to ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines and restart (you will now be able to choose pandoc as a compilation method).
Legacy Stata scripts for BBEdit/TextWrangler
Ben Hulley’s original suite of tools for using Stata from within BBEdit. These scripts don’t work out of the box with recent versions of BBEdit/TextWrangler, but since they can still be modified to work, some might find them useful.
