The Rising Sea

Study Software

March 27, 2006 on 10:13 pm | In Uncategorized | No Comments

A few people have already downloaded my simple application Study for managing mathematics notes. An unadvertised feature of the current version is the ability to create cross-references between results in different files. If you download any of my mathematics notes you will probably notice “coloured” links of the form (MRS, Proposition 6). Keeping such references updated by hand would require hundreds of changes for every minor change to my Modules over Ringed Spaces notes.

Clearly I do not keep these references updated by hand. I insert a latex command of the form \sef{MRS}{prop_someresult} in my LaTeX file. When the file is latexed an Applescript passes the text to the application Study which resolves the acronym “MRS” to a certain LaTeX file and replaces the \sef command with the appropriate text (MRS, Proposition 6). In fact these are working hyperlinks to the referenced result, usable in any viewer (such as Acrobat) which understands such things, provided you have a local copy of the referenced file.

I have not yet documented this feature properly because I’m not sure if anyone will actually use it, and it hasn’t been extensively tested. Any Mac users who would like to help test this feature, please send me an email (see the About page).