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MacOSX-TeX Digest #165 - Tuesday, November 27, 2001
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Outliner, Database, Word as Editor
by "Benji Fisher"
URGENT: Do not use New teTeX.dmg
by "Gerben Wierda"
New teTeX.dmg with correct ghostscript
by "Gerben Wierda"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Problems with new tetex (?), and more
by "Gerben Wierda"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] OzTeX configs in TeXShop?
by
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] OzTeX configs in TeXShop?
by
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] OzTeX configs in TeXShop?
by "Michael Murray"
2 simple questions
by "tom keyes"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] 2 simple questions
by "Alessandro Languasco"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] 2 simple questions
by "William Adams"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] 2 simple questions
by "Gary L. Gray"
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Outliner, Database, Word as Editor
From: "Benji Fisher"
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 22:44:49 -0500
get86@mac.com wrote:
>
> At 3:11 PM -0500 11/26/01, Benji Fisher wrote:
> > You can get the Carbon version of vim from
http://homepage.mac.com/fisherbb
>
> Where?
I think I tested the link before I sent it; I was using OmniWeb on
Mac OS X at the time. Right now, with Netscape on W95, this seems to =
work:
http://homepage.mac.com/fisherbb/index.html
I think this i-disk is more trouble than it is worth. I may post the next
version of Vim-Carbon somewhere else (soon, I hope).
--Benji Fisher
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Subject: URGENT: Do not use New teTeX.dmg
From: "Gerben Wierda"
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:38:39 +0100
I accidentally released a teTeX with gs7 binaries and gs6 library. I
have removed the teTeX.dmg from my ftp area and teTeX.dmg again points
to the one from Nov 1.
G
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Subject: New teTeX.dmg with correct ghostscript
From: "Gerben Wierda"
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:16:01 +0100
I have been testing gs7 again lately, and I forgot to reinstall gs6
before packaging. My apologies.
A new teTeX.dmg will be available from 27-Nov-2001, 11:00 GMT. Just
reinstall ghostscript from that one.
G
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Problems with new tetex (?), and more
From: "Gerben Wierda"
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 11:14:13 +0100
On Tuesday, November 27, 2001, at 01:18 , Holger Frauenrath wrote:
> The same trick worked for me. I hope that this did not break anything
> else,
> though ...
As far as I know, it did not. And I know what I'm doing, right? ;-)
G
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] OzTeX configs in TeXShop?
From:
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:12:46 +0100 (MET)
>>>>> Gerben Wierda (GW) writes:
GW> On Wednesday, November 21, 2001, at 04:44 , Michael Murray wrote:
>> If you have more things like fonts and configs
>> as I understand it (which is very little) tex under tetex
>> will look for things only in certain places so if I put fonts
>> in the same folder I would not find them. So the whole texmf
>> tree has to be a copy of the standard system texmf tree. Thats
>> why you have to create the whole sequence of folders above.
GW> The story is almost correct. Mostly, only the *first* subfolder below
GW> 'texmf' need to be specific.
GW> E.g. ~/Library/texmf/tex/foo.sty will be found by LATeX.
GW> ~/Library/texmf/tex for tex,latex,sty,tex source, etc (which is enough =
for
GW> most people)
GW> ~/Library/texmf/fonts for font stuff.
This is not correct. Look into the texmf.cnf:
latex will only look in tex/latex and tex/generic
whereas plain tex will look in tex/plain and tex/generic.
The pdf versions will also look in the corresponding directories in =
pdftex.
--
Piet van Oostrum
URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP]
Private email: P.van.Oostrum@hccnet.nl
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] OzTeX configs in TeXShop?
From:
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:18:40 +0100 (MET)
Sorry, that message was not supposed to be sent.
I discovered that -- in spite of the texmf.cnf settings -- all the
~/Library/texmf/tex stuff is searches in latex.
Where is that done?
--
Piet van Oostrum
URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP]
Private email: P.van.Oostrum@hccnet.nl
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] OzTeX configs in TeXShop?
From: "Michael Murray"
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:06:26 +1030
>Sorry, that message was not supposed to be sent.
>
>I discovered that -- in spite of the texmf.cnf settings -- all the
>~/Library/texmf/tex stuff is searches in latex.
>Where is that done?
>--
>Piet van Oostrum
>URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP]
>Private email: P.van.Oostrum@hccnet.nl
>
Have a look in the doc that comes with the teTeX installer called
Howtexfindsfiles. It says
TEXINPUTS.latex =3D .:$TEXMF/tex/{latex,generic,}//
is expanded by latex to be
$TEXMF/tex/latex//,$TEXMF/tex/generic//,$TEXMF/tex///
My guess is that this due to the second , If you had
TEXINPUTS.latex =3D .:$TEXMF/tex/{latex,generic}//
it would expand to
$TEXMF/tex/latex//,$TEXMF/tex/generic//
I'
Michael
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Subject: 2 simple questions
From: "tom keyes"
Date: 27 Nov 2001 16:55:44 -0500
Hi all,
1. I usually make two-column documents to submit to journals, and insert
postscript figs with psfigs. This works very nicely with figs of about one
column width which is the size I want. Now i am working on a one-column =
doc
and the same procedure leaves all the space to the right of the fig blank.
How can I make the text flow around the figure?
2. NSF fastlane has 'banned' some pdf - with adobe they ask you to use
distiller not pdfwriter. Does anyone know if the pdf created by TeXShop
are acceptable to Fastlane?
Thanks
Tom
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] 2 simple questions
From: "Alessandro Languasco"
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:25:21 +0100
1. you can use commands like \hangindent and \hangafter.
See the Knuth manual on TeX .
2. I don't know.
bye,
alessandro
On Tuesday, November 27, 2001, at 10:55 , tom keyes wrote:
> Hi all,
> 1. I usually make two-column documents to submit to journals, and
> insert
> postscript figs with psfigs. This works very nicely with figs of about
> one
> column width which is the size I want. Now i am working on a one-column
> doc
> and the same procedure leaves all the space to the right of the fig
> blank.
> How can I make the text flow around the figure?
> 2. NSF fastlane has 'banned' some pdf - with adobe they ask you to use
> distiller not pdfwriter. Does anyone know if the pdf created by TeXShop
> are acceptable to Fastlane?
>
> Thanks
> Tom
>
>
>
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] 2 simple questions
From: "William Adams"
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:01:31 -0500
on NSF Fastlane proposal submissions....
Nelson Beebe has been working this over---at the least, pdfTeX, etc. are
_not_ on the same plane as PDFWriter (a horrid kludge which uses the
printer driver mechanism to convert to the native graphics format (i.e.
QuickDraw or Windows MetaFile) and then translate that to PDF with
results as one might expect after such translation / mangling).
The biggest problem is one of font sub-setting / encoding. And since the
NSF dropped the requirement of all fonts being sub-setted seemst to be
pretty much ``in the bag''.
The following Google search seems to come up with lots of (potentially)
useful pages:
http://www.google.com/search?q=3Dnsf+fastlane+proposal+tex+pdf+submission
William
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] 2 simple questions
From: "Gary L. Gray"
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:30:13 -0500
On 11/27/01 4:55 PM, "tom keyes" wrote:
> 2. NSF fastlane has 'banned' some pdf - with adobe they ask you to use
> distiller not pdfwriter. Does anyone know if the pdf created by TeXShop
> are acceptable to Fastlane?
I have submitted two proposals to NSF since I started using TeXShop + =
teTeX
in April. I have not had trouble with either proposal being accepted. In
addition, NSF has a web page discussing TeX and Fastlane submission at:
Good luck,
--
Gary L. Gray
Associate Professor
Engineering Science & Mechanics
Penn State University
(814) 863-1778
http://www.esm.psu.edu/Faculty/Gray/
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