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MacOSX-TeX Digest #120 - Wednesday, October 10, 2001
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] bibTeX Tool
by "Arun Mangalam"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] bibTeX Tool
by "Fredrik Wallenberg"
Replacing bitmaps by type 1 fonts
by "Alessio Guglielmi"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Replacing bitmaps by type 1 fonts
by "William Adams"
texshop dirties files
by "Joachim Kock"
atchange
by "Cian Dorr"
True Type Fonts
by "Malte Harder"
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] bibTeX Tool
From: "Arun Mangalam"
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 11:10:46 -0400
Hello,
There is a really good UNIX utility, bibtool, by Gerd Neugebauer at:
http://www.dante.de/CTAN/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/
BTW, to compile the above tool, do the following:
cp /usr/libexec/config* .
./configure
setenv CPPFLAGS -no-cpp-precomp
make
sudo make install
To get the documentation, go to the docs directory and "make".
That's it! It has options to sort to many criteria. Hope you find it
useful.
- Arun
On Tuesday, October 9, 2001, at 02:10 AM, J.Huelsmann wrote:
> Hey Folks!
> Is there a utility to edit .bib files so I can sort the fields
> alphabetically and the like?
>
> --Jan--
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] bibTeX Tool
From: "Fredrik Wallenberg"
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 18:09:07 -0700
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On Monday, October 8, 2001, at 11:10 PM, J.Huelsmann wrote:
> Is there a utility to edit .bib files so I can sort the fields
> alphabetically and the like?
>
While it may be more than you're asking for, I use BibGene (runs just
fine in Classic mode).
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/bibs/bibgene/
Fredrik
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On Monday, October 8, 2001, at 11:10 PM, J.Huelsmann wrote:
Is there a utility to edit .bib files so I can sort
the fields alphabetically and the like?
While it may be more than you're asking for, I use BibGene (runs just
fine in Classic mode).
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/bibs/bibgene/
Fredrik
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Subject: Replacing bitmaps by type 1 fonts
From: "Alessio Guglielmi"
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 14:10:46 +0200
Hello,
given a postscript file containing bitmaps, is there a way of
producing an equivalent file that employs type 1 fonts?
Best,
-Alessio
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Replacing bitmaps by type 1 fonts
From: "William Adams"
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 08:27:54 -0400
There's a brief note and a pointer about doing this in the on-line docs
for Frank Siegert's wonderful pStill.app (available for Mac OS X at
www.stone.com) at www.this.net/~frank (might be www.wizards.de)
HTH!
William
--
William Adams, publishing specialist
ATLIS Graphics & Design / 717-731-6707 voice / 717-731-6708 fax
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
http://www.atlis.com
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Subject: texshop dirties files
From: "Joachim Kock"
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 14:59:41 +0200
Hello,
I am just starting a migration to osx and possibly texshop...
Clearly this programme has potential. However while its editor
is so limited, I continue to type in alpha --- and hopefully
alpha goes x before too long. Now what is very annoying about
this combination is that texshop when it imports a source file,
changes the modification date, and if the file comes from os9:
zaps its resource fork. In fact, whoever created the tex file:
compiling it is supposed to be an act of reading, not editing,
so it should never be allowed to change anything...
Cheers,
Joachim.
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Laboratoire de Math=E9matiques J.A.Dieudonn=E9 T=E9l. +33 04.92.07.62=
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Universit=E9 de Nice Sophia-Antipolis Fax +33 04.93.51.79.74
Parc Valrose - 06108 Nice c=E9dex 2 - FRANCE M=E9l. kock@math.unice.f=
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Subject: atchange
From: "Cian Dorr"
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:53:58 -0400
I took Phillippe Lel=E9dy's suggestion and downloaded the perl script=20=
atchange. I ran it like this
atchange mydoc.pdf open mydoc.pdf
hoping that that would make Acrobat Reader show all changes to the file=20=
mydoc.pdf. Unfortunately, this doesn't work: it turns out that if=20
Acrobat already has mydoc.pdf open, doing another 'open' won't make it=20=
reload the latest version of mydoc.pdf; it just keeps displaying the=20
out-of-date version it has in memory.
Does anyone have a way to work around this? One thing I thought of was=20=
opening mydoc.pdf in a web browser with the PDF plugin and somehow=20
getting atchange to tell the web browser to "refresh"; but then I=20
remembered that there is no PDF plugin for OS X---one of the biggest=20
annoyances for me; my desktop keeps filling up with downloaded pdfs. =20
(Or am I wrong about this? Have other people been able to view PDF's=20
with their browsers?)
Cian Dorr
On Monday, October 8, 2001, at 08:00 PM, TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List=20=
wrote:
>
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, V. Vatsal wrote:
>
>> Philippe,
>>
>> Is this script available some place? I'd like to try it.
>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Paulo Abreu wrote:
>>>
>>>> The feature I miss most while working with TeX under MacOSX is a=20
>>>> ps/pdf
>>>> previewer with autorefresh -- that is, with the feature to reload =
and
>>>
>>>> moves to the saved position. Is it possible to write a script that=20=
>>>> does
>>>> this?
>>>>
>>>> Paulo
>>>>
>>>
>>> I wrote a simple script, after reading xdvi sources: to have=20
>>> autorefresh
>>> feature, scan every second the timestamp of the file, and if it has
>>> changed, issue
>>> open -a
>>>
>>> preview.app isn't clever enough for remenbering scale factor, but=20
>>> TeXShop
>>> is.
>>>
>
> My own litlle script is no more necessary since I discovered, thanks =
to
> this list, a perl script called "atchange" which do exactly who its =
name
> means, trigger a command each time a file's time stamp is changed.
>
> Salutations.
>
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Subject: True Type Fonts
From: "Malte Harder"
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:59:36 +0200
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Hi,
I got ttf2tfm compiled and coud convert a true type font ( converted
from mac to win via ttconverter ) into a vf and a tfm file. I put these
to files into the txfm/fonts/vf and texfm/fonts/tfm directories. But
pdftex does not recognize them if I call pdftex fonttest. ttf2tfm made
also a map file but i don't know where to put it in. I looked at
http://www.radamir.com/tex/ttf-tex.htm but I have neither an
texmf/ttf2tfm/base/ directory nor a texmf/pdftex/base dir, where I
could copy the encoding and map files.
Malte
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Hi,
I got ttf2tfm compiled and coud convert a true type font ( converted
from mac to win via ttconverter ) into a vf and a tfm file. I put
these to files into the txfm/fonts/vf and texfm/fonts/tfm directories.
But pdftex does not recognize them if I call pdftex fonttest. ttf2tfm
made also a map file but i don't know where to put it in. I looked at
=3D
1A1A,1A1A,FFFFhttp://www.radamir.com/tex/=
=3D
ttf-tex.htm
but I have neither an texmf/ttf2tfm/base/ directory nor a
texmf/pdftex/base dir, where I could copy the encoding and map files.
Malte=3D
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