Generic Projects.

The project paradigm might be too heavy for typesetting very simple documents. Also, one quite always use the same settings when typesetting, so iTeXMac stores this widely used information in so called Generic Projects.

Generic projects are rootless projects. They can be used to avoid creating a project file for each simple TeX document. For them, the generic check box is checked in the main file pane of the project window... which means that such projects have no attached TeX input file. So they tend to fit to any document currently edited.

iTeXMac automatically uses a generic project whenever it cannot guess what to do exactly from the contents of the TeX source files to typeset.

Using a generic project

Simply select it in the activate Project submenu

Once a project is activated, then any source file you edit will be typeset with that project, ie with its compile and typeset commands, bibtex and makeindex parameters. However, this does not apply to source files which provide in their headers the project to be used by iTeXMac.

Configuring a generic Project

You can configure a generic project like non generic ones except for the root input file. In general, the root file is the document associate to the topmost TeX document window.

Altering a generic Project

iTeXMac is distributed with generic projects but you can alter them to fit your wishes. When launching, iTeXMac opens the generic projects located in

"~/Library/Application Support/iTeXMac/Generic Projects"

If you remove all the projects in the folder above, iTeXMac will not launch any generic project at start up. If you remove the folder above, iTeXMac will recreate it with default generic projects next time it will start up.

To prevent accidental changes, you cannot simply "save" the project documents loaded at startup. If you want to modify them, you must "save them as". Generic projects not located in
"~/Library/Application Support/iTeXMac/Generic Projects"
can be "save"d normally.

You can manage generic projects in the above dictionary from the "TeX->Activate Project->Configure Generics" menu item. Checked items will appear in the "TeX->Activate Project" submenu next time iTeXMac is launched.