On 15 Apr 2021, at 11:45, Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net> wrote:

Am 15.04.2021 um 10:26 schrieb Hans van der Meer <havdmeer@ziggo.nl>:

When running the command: context --autopdf --run myfile.tex I had hoped the pdfviewer Preview on my MacOS system (version Catalina) would open the pdf for viewing.

It works with --autopdf=auto

Allthough a new pdf is created, this is not opened. If the pdf is open in Preview already, it is not updated unless switching to the Preview application.

It something wrong here? Is it not functional in MacOS? Am I missing some clue?

Apple’s Preview updates only on activation, and not reliably (for me, it often crashes).

That it doesn’t update in the background is more a feature than a bug, otherwise it would complain about broken/unavailable files during the TeX runs.

Hraban
___________________________________________________________________________________
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
webpage  : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net
archive  : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/
wiki     : http://contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________________