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Subject: MacOSX-TeX Digest #172 - 12/04/01
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MacOSX-TeX Digest #172 - Tuesday, December 4, 2001

  fink and TeXShop
          by "David R. Morrison" 
  Scientific Assistant's teTeX vs. GW's?
          by "Alexandre Enkerli" 
  Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Scientific Assistant's teTeX vs. GW's?
          by "Gerben Wierda" 


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Subject: fink and TeXShop
From: "David R. Morrison" 
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 20:28:59 -0500

I'd like to mention again the two ways that fink users can use TeXShop
without running into compatibility problems.  If you are doing things
one of these two ways and you _do_ encounter problems, I would like
to hear about it and I will do my best to help.

  Method 1: Use Gerben Wierda's teTeX distribution, and after it is
   installed, install the fink package "system-tetex".  Be sure to
   install system-tetex-20010808-2, the latest version available on
   CVS.  (You may need to run "fink selfupdate-cvs" to get it.)

  If you use Method 1, then fink will add an appropriate entry to your
   "path" variable so that the teTeX files will be found.

  Method 2: Install teTeX directly, using fink.  The "tetex" package on
   fink will install a half-dozen other packages, the necessary components
   of a complete teTeX installation.  (At present, this teTeX installation
   matches the one which Gerben Wierda distributed in August; an update
   is forthcoming.)  You will then need to tell TeXShop about the path
   where the binaries are stored, usually /sw/bin (unless you made another
   choice when you installed fink).

No matter which method you use, it is recommended that you put the command
"source /sw/bin/init.csh" in your .login file rather than your .cshrc =
file.
Some problems which were caused by this file being loaded multiple times
will be addressed in a forthcoming update to fink.

  -- Dave Morrison

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Subject: Scientific Assistant's teTeX vs. GW's?
From: "Alexandre Enkerli" 
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 20:59:16 -0500

Anyone knows if Scientific Assistant's version of teTeX conflicts with
Gerben Wierda's?



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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Scientific Assistant's teTeX vs. GW's?
From: "Gerben Wierda" 
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 09:35:56 +0100

On Tuesday, December 4, 2001, at 02:59 , Alexandre Enkerli wrote:

> Anyone knows if Scientific Assistant's version of teTeX conflicts with
> Gerben Wierda's?

When you use TeXShop and you run your typesetting from TeXShop (1.13c) 
you are pretty much protected against all other distributions if you use 
the default path settings in Preferences.

If you run from the command line, it depends on your PATH settings and 
other TeX-related environment variables. You can make my teTeX preferred 
in the PATH by adding the line

	setenv PATH "/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:${PATH}"

at the end of your ~/.login file. If you want to make sure the 
ghostscript installed from TeXGSInstaller is used, add instead the 
following line:

	setenv PATH "/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-
current:/usr/local/bin:${PATH}"

With respect to other environment variables, teTeX does not need any, 
but those that are available may interfere by directing teTeX to other 
than default locations or set other than default settings.

G

As far as I know, the only distribution that has ever conflicted with my 
distribution is fink, because it forces itself at the start of the path.


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