These tools automate or otherwise simplify several common research and writing tasks for Mac OS X (and some other) users. They come with no warranty and are released under a Creative Commons license. The links below are to the posts where the files appear on Dataninja, not the files themselves, because the posts may have installation instructions.
TextWrangler tools
- Stata language module for TextWrangler — Colored syntax highlighting for the Stata language when using TextWrangler
- Stata do file template — A basic template to use when creating Stata do files
- SendToStata — Sends a .do file to Stata from within TextWrangler
- Un/Comment scripts — Enables easy commenting and uncommenting of blocks of Stata, R and LaTeX code
- Tableizer — Converts plain text to the LaTeX tabular format
- SendToR — Sends .R files to R from within TextWrangler
- TeXShell/PDFLaTeX — Scripts to process LaTeX files from within TextWrangler
- Convert_TW — Processes a TeX file with either latex2rtf (for RTF files) or HeVeA (for HTML files)
Installation: To install any AppleScript for TextWrangler, copy the scpt file to
~/Library/Application Support/TextWrangler/Scripts
Shortcut keys: These AppleScripts are more convenient if you assign keyboard shortcuts to them. To do so, select “Windows: Paletts: Scripts” which will bring up a list of all of your AppleScripts. Then click on “Set key” and press the combination that you want. Test your shortcut first to make sure that it isn’t already assigned to an important function.
Compatibility: The TextWrangler scripts and modules available here should work with BBEdit as well, possibly with slight changes in instructions.
Other tools
- LyX launcher — a droplet to open the Fink/X11 version of LyX on OS X
- DropR — allows a .R file to be dropped onto the script, produces a text file containing the output
- Convert_TS — Adds a conversion to RTF/HTML macro to TeXShop
