I am considering the Alfred Powerpack for a rather specific use (although if it works, I guess others will follow):
I started writing in markdown (in Ulysses III to be precise). It can save to FILE.md, and then
1. I open the terminal,
2. make terminal know in which directory the file resides (in my case standard: cd Documents/Pandoc )
3. type
pandoc -o FILE.tex --template=TEMPLATE.xelatex FILE.md
4. and then in TeXshop I search and replace (because I often use very specific environments, which I cannot do without)
\textbackslash{} to \
\{ to {
\} to }
5. and finally I can run XeLaTeX on it.
It would be nice to create a workflow for steps 1-4. Can James, sorry, Alfred do this?
All the best,
Willem