Combining Finder’s File Open/save dialog with Alfred

(1) Ready Alfred to accept a terminal command. Per this support document, the standard method is to type > and then the terminal command. Similarly, in LaunchBar the action is built into the basic index, too, and one can initiate it with term or similar.

(2) Type texdoc PackageName where PackageName is the LaTeX package you're looking for the documentation for. For example: texdoc enumitem or texdoc thmtools.

It'll open the documentation PDF. That's it!

Note that of course you can also do this from the command line directly if you open a terminal window.

Here's how you'd do this:

1. Go into the finder, and drag whichever folder you want to use for this into the "Favorites" section in the sidebar (enable the sidebar in the view menu if it isn't showing).

2. Run this script, but replace menu item "Xcode" of click menu item "Xcode" of menu 1 of pop up button "Where:" with the name of the folder you added to your favorites.

   tell application "System Events"
       tell application process "Safari"
           set frontmost to true
           tell menu bar 1
               click menu item "Show Reader" of menu "View" of menu bar item "View"
               click menu item "Save As…" of menu "File" of menu bar item "File"
           end tell
           tell window 1
               repeat until sheet 1 exists
               end repeat
               tell sheet 1
                   click pop up button "Where:"
                   repeat until menu 1 of pop up button "Where:" exists
                   end repeat
                   click menu item "Xcode" of menu 1 of pop up button "Where:"
                   click button "Save"
               end tell
           end tell
       end tell
   end tell