In case of networking errors the uploads will be attempted later when you get back online. Applications that can open files or directories in-place such as Textastic, iA Writer, Pythonista and many more can work directly on your server.įiles are downloaded on demand and uploaded when there are changes. Setup new servers inside Secure ShellFish itself and access files on these servers in the Files app and other apps supporting the document browser or document picker.
SSH TEXTASTIC 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.Secure ShellFish is a SSH and SFTP file manager that works well with other apps. This is not nearly as convenient as pressing ⇧⌘P in Drafts-in fact, it requires five taps to compile and another to get back to the report file.
SSH TEXTASTIC PDF
On my Mac is a newly built PDF of the report. Shortcuts opens an SSH connection to my Mac, runs the three commands in build.sh, and returns to Textastic. Most of them are Textastic-specific, but the Open In… option hands the text off to the standard iPad share sheet.įrom 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 I’m writing in Textastic, I keep the LaTeX source for the report in one tab and build.sh in another.
What’s important is that you can put it in a tab in Textastic, because we’re going to send its contents to a Shortcut.Īll 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 doesn’t have to be saved there, certainly not in the same folder as the report.
As you can see, they’re saved in a file named build.sh, but the name doesn’t really matter. The only difference is that the directory ( ~/Dropbox/projects/test/report) and file name ( report.tex, but latexmk doesn’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 Saturday’s post: bash: Here’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 isn’t scriptable, so I can’t write an action for it the way I could with Drafts. This is great if I’m writing in Drafts, but what if I’m using another editor? Specifically, what if I’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. But I have one more thing to say about writing in LaTeX on the iPad.Ī 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 isn’t about the day’s announcements. Next post Previous post LaTeX and Textastic
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