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MacOSX-TeX Digest #437 - Wednesday, September 25, 2002
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop/teTeX speed using TeX+ghostscript
by "Philippe Lel=E9dy"
Re: Font anti-aliasing
by "Charles Bouldin"
Why GS 7 ? [Was: Re: [OS X TeX] New version of TeX]
by "Michael Murray"
[OT] Extending a figure on the external margin
by "Serge Cohen"
RE: Why GS 7 ? [Was: Re: [OS X TeX] New version of TeX]
by "Maarten Sneep"
Re: Why GS 7 ? [Was: Re: [OS X TeX] New version of TeX]
by "Gary L. Gray"
Re: Why GS 7 ? [Was: Re: [OS X TeX] New version of TeX]
by "Edward Thome"
Re: Why GS 7 ? [Was: Re: [OS X TeX] New version of TeX]
by "Bruno Voisin"
Re: [OS X TeX] [OT] Extending a figure on the external margin
by "Gary L. Gray"
Where to put cls/sty
by "Stephan Hochhaus"
TeXShop "errors"?
by "David Wagner"
Re: [OS X TeX] Where to put cls/sty
by "Juan Manuel Palacios"
Re: [OS X TeX] [OT] Extending a figure on the external margin
by "Siep"
Re: [OS X TeX] Where to put cls/sty
by "Martin Stokhof"
Re: [OS X TeX] Where to put cls/sty
by "Juan Manuel Palacios"
Re: [OS X TeX] Where to put cls/sty
by "Fredrik Wallenberg"
Re: [OS X TeX] Where to put cls/sty
by "Juan Manuel Palacios"
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop/teTeX speed using TeX+ghostscript
From: "Philippe Lel=E9dy"
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:57:33 +0200
Le mardi 24 septembre 2002, =E0 08:07 PM, Bruno Voisin a =E9crit :
> Le mardi, 24 sep 2002, =E0 16:48 Europe/Paris, Wolfgang Lerche a =E9crit=
:
>
>> [snip]
>>
>> I do not see the point of these washed-out anti-aliased fonts, rather=20=
>> I get headache from them;
>> for a comparison between OSX anti-aliased fonts and Nextstep =
bitmapped=20
>> fonts,
>> see eg. here.=
>> It appears that there is no TeX previewer under OSX that doesn't look=20=
>> worse or much worse
>> than the previewers on other systems - eg just consider Miktex under=20=
>> W$$ and judge yourself
>> how the crisp dark saturated fonts look, and how smoothly the=20
>> previewer (Acrobat) scrolls.
>
> In OS X 10.2, in the System Pref "General" there is a new item =
allowing=20
> to setup anti-aliasing (to some extent). But not yet to switch it off.=20=
> And yes, I too have sometimes the impression of seeing an unfocused=20
> screen when I watch an anti-aliased window.
>
In my opinion it depends heavily on the quality of the display unit you=20=
are using
With
here
I now prefer anti-alias but with a previous display unit I used to=20
prefer non anti-alias.
As the quality of display unit grows I think the debate will close down=20=
soon, in favor of anti-alias.
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Subject: Re: Font anti-aliasing
From: "Charles Bouldin"
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:43:30 -0400
At 8:00 PM -0400 9/24/02, TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List wrote:
>Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop/teTeX speed using TeX+ghostscript
>From: "Bruno Voisin"
>Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:07:23 +0200
>
>Le mardi, 24 sep 2002, =E0 16:48 Europe/Paris, Wolfgang Lerche a =E9crit :
>
>> [snip]
>>
>> I do not see the point of these washed-out anti-aliased fonts, rather
>> I get headache from them;
>> for a comparison between OSX anti-aliased fonts and Nextstep bitmapped
>> fonts,
>> see eg. here.
>> It appears that there is no TeX previewer under OSX that doesn't look
>> worse or much worse
>> than the previewers on other systems - eg just consider Miktex under
>> W$$ and judge yourself
>> how the crisp dark saturated fonts look, and how smoothly the
>> previewer (Acrobat) scrolls.
>
>In OS X 10.2, in the System Pref "General" there is a new item allowing
>to setup anti-aliasing (to some extent). But not yet to switch it off.
>And yes, I too have sometimes the impression of seeing an unfocused
>screen when I watch an anti-aliased window.
>
If you get Tinkertool (versiontracker.com) you can turn font
anti-aliasing off completely.
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Subject: Why GS 7 ? [Was: Re: [OS X TeX] New version of TeX]
From: "Michael Murray"
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 22:23:36 +0930
>
>You can install GS 6 or 7. As far as I can tell, all Quartz display
>issues with GS 7 have been fixed in Jaguar.
>
>-- Gary L. Gray
>
Are there reasons for choosing 7 instead of 6 ? If so how do I do it with
Gerben's teTeX? Do I have to download 7 with Fink and set TeXShop to use =
7?
Thanks - Michael
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Subject: [OT] Extending a figure on the external margin
From: "Serge Cohen"
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:57:43 +0200
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Hello,
This is a bit of toppic because it's not a MacOS specific TeX question,
still if someone knonws the answer I'd be very grateful.
I'm having a doc in the Book class. In it I have large figure which I
want to extend over the margin. Indeed that running mostly Ok, except
that the margin used is always the left one, which is Ok for odd pages
(that then correspond to external margin) but I want it to be the
opposite for even pages (going on the right margin which is then the
external margin).
I see that it is how they get their large figure in the LaTeX companion
book, but I don't know how they do it (don't have teh source, and
reluctant to look in such big sources anyway), and I'm afraid they do it
in the class defintion, which I would definitely not be able to do.
Thanks for any help.
Serge (PhD student in a rush for printing the final version of his PhD).
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Subject: RE: Why GS 7 ? [Was: Re: [OS X TeX] New version of TeX]
From: "Maarten Sneep"
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:58:42 +0200 (CEST)
On 25-Sep-02 Michael Murray wrote:
> Are there reasons for choosing 7 instead of 6 ? If so how do I do it =
with
> Gerben's teTeX? Do I have to download 7 with Fink and set TeXShop to use =
7?
Reasons for switching to GS7: security (postscript is a programming =
language,
and can do harm) better (more conformant) quality of the resulting pdf =
(smaller)
Of course Gerben has a ii-package at url:
http://www.ntg.nl/macosx-tex/i-packages/gs7.ii
all packages can be found at: http://www.rna.nl/ii.html
WARNING: remove GS6 before installing GS7
Kind regards,
Maarten Sneep
A prune isn't really a vegetable... Cabbage is a vegetable
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Subject: Re: Why GS 7 ? [Was: Re: [OS X TeX] New version of TeX]
From: "Gary L. Gray"
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:10:30 -0400
On Wednesday, September 25, 2002, at 08:58 AM, Maarten Sneep wrote:
> On 25-Sep-02 Michael Murray wrote:
>> Are there reasons for choosing 7 instead of 6 ? If so how do I do it
>> with
>> Gerben's teTeX? Do I have to download 7 with Fink and set TeXShop to
>> use 7?
>
> Reasons for switching to GS7: security (postscript is a programming
> language,
> and can do harm) better (more conformant) quality of the resulting pdf
> (smaller)
In addition, GS7 fixes a nasty bug in GS6 regarding the rendering of
gradients. Most of our Illustrator images have gradients and they
rendered painfully slow with GS6. They now render and display nicely in
GS7 and Jaguar.
> Of course Gerben has a ii-package at url:
> http://www.ntg.nl/macosx-tex/i-packages/gs7.ii
>
> all packages can be found at: http://www.rna.nl/ii.html
>
> WARNING: remove GS6 before installing GS7
I did not do this when I originally went from 6 to 7 (many months ago)
-- I simply installed 7 over 6. I haven't had any problems. Why does
this need to be done?
Best regards,
-- Gary L. Gray
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Subject: Re: Why GS 7 ? [Was: Re: [OS X TeX] New version of TeX]
From: "Edward Thome"
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:15:12 -0500
Go to Gerben's site and download the latest TeX-thin i-Installer. Once
you've put the installer on your drive, go to the File menu and select
"Open Remote i-Package" and paste
"http://www.ntg.nl/macosx-tex/i-packages/gs7.ii" in the field for the
url. That will bring up the usual installation window.
Compatibility with ps files on other systems might be an issue...there
is no doubt that someone else knows the answer to the second half of
your question better than I. I've read that some flaws with GS 6 were
fixed in GS 7 (although I don't know what they were) but under 10.1.x,
GS 6 worked better with OS X because of the Quartz display issues with
GS 7. I apologize for probably repeating what you already know and
read in the same place I did (but months ago, so I can't give credit).
Best wishes,
Ed
On Wednesday, September 25, 2002, at 07:53 AM, Michael Murray wrote:
>>
>> You can install GS 6 or 7. As far as I can tell, all Quartz display
>> issues with GS 7 have been fixed in Jaguar.
>>
>> -- Gary L. Gray
>>
> Are there reasons for choosing 7 instead of 6 ? If so how do I do it
> with
> Gerben's teTeX? Do I have to download 7 with Fink and set TeXShop to
> use 7?
>
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Subject: Re: Why GS 7 ? [Was: Re: [OS X TeX] New version of TeX]
From: "Bruno Voisin"
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:18:14 +0200
Le mercredi, 25 sep 2002, =E0 14:58 Europe/Paris, Maarten Sneep a =E9crit =
:
> Reasons for switching to GS7: security (postscript is a programming=20
> language,
> and can do harm) better (more conformant) quality of the resulting pdf=20=
> (smaller)
But be aware that a candidate bug has recently showed up in GS 7. It=20
affects TeXShop in TeX + GhostScript mode, and is different from the=20
previous incompatibility between GS 7 and OS X 10.0-1. See the recent=20
thread "[OS X TeX] Accent bug with times".
Bruno Voisin=
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] [OT] Extending a figure on the external margin
From: "Gary L. Gray"
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:21:19 -0400
On Wednesday, September 25, 2002, at 08:57 AM, Serge Cohen wrote:
> I'm having a doc in the Book class. In it I have large figure which I
> want to extend over the margin. Indeed that running mostly Ok, except
> that the margin used is always the left one, which is Ok for odd pages
> (that then correspond to external margin) but I want it to be the
> opposite for even pages (going on the right margin which is then the
> external margin).
Have TeX determine whether or not the page is even or odd and then
include the graphic file:
\newlength{\negevenjump}
\newcommand{\bigfig}{%
\ifthenelse{\isodd{\thepage}}%
% then set \negevenjump to zero;
{\setlength{\negevenjump}{0mm}}%
% otherwise set \negevenjump to a value which makes the graphic
% aligned with the left margin of even numbered pages.
{\setlength{\negevenjump}{-\marginparsep - \marginparwidth}}%
% Now simply include the graphic.
\hspace{\negevenjump}\includegraphics{yourfigname}
}
I haven't tried this, but it gives you the general idea (I have simply
modified some code we have to do this from a book we are writing). Note
it does not use the figure environment, which gives a float, so you
will have to determine the placement of your figure and create the
caption.
You might also search for this in comp.text.tex on Google.
Good luck,
-- Gary L. Gray
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Subject: Where to put cls/sty
From: "Stephan Hochhaus"
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 21:14:57 +0200
Hello list!
I have finally to download my very first custom package and
successfully create a .cls and .sty file from it using TeXShop becuase
every other way failed.
Now where would I put these files in order to be able to work with
them? Should they be placed in the /usr/local/teTex folder or is it
enough to place them in the TeXShop directory?
I am still very new to this and my LaTeX companion book hasn't arrived
yet...
Thanks for your help!
Stephan
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Subject: TeXShop "errors"?
From: "David Wagner"
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:28:07 -0500
When I use TeXShop, I get many messages in /var/log/system.log like this:
Sep 25 12:41:59 grace-math-uh-edu
/Applications/TeXShop_Folder/TeXShop.app/Contents/MacOS/TeXShop:
kCGErrorFailure : can't find name id 6 for font id 41317
Sep 25 12:41:59 grace-math-uh-edu
/Applications/TeXShop_Folder/TeXShop.app/Contents/MacOS/TeXShop:
kCGErrorFailure : can't find name id 6 for font id 49518
Sep 25 12:41:59 grace-math-uh-edu
/Applications/TeXShop_Folder/TeXShop.app/Contents/MacOS/TeXShop:
kCGErrorFailure : can't find name id 6 for font id 41325
These messages are generated when I print a pdflatex output file from
TeXShop to my USB-connected HP LaserJet 1200.
TeXShop seems to run OK, but I would rather not have these messages. I =
know
Richard Koch has his hands full, but I want to bring this to y'all's
attention.
David Wagner
--
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Where to put cls/sty
From: "Juan Manuel Palacios"
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:39:54 -0400
Somewhere in your /usr/local tree you should have a directory named
something like teTeX.local. If you are running the latest Gerben's
packages then that should be /usr/local/teTex.texmf.local/, where you
should find other directories named tex/latex/. Create a new directory
with the name of the package you are trying to install and place the
relevant files in there.
To make your teTeX installation aware of the new packages you
should run the command "sudo texhash" and all the information about the
available classes and packages in your system should be updated.
Hope that helps. Regards,...
Juan.
On Wednesday, September 25, 2002, at 03:14 PM, Stephan Hochhaus wrote:
> Hello list!
>
> I have finally to download my very first custom package and
> successfully create a .cls and .sty file from it using TeXShop becuase
> every other way failed.
> Now where would I put these files in order to be able to work with
> them? Should they be placed in the /usr/local/teTex folder or is it
> enough to place them in the TeXShop directory?
> I am still very new to this and my LaTeX companion book hasn't arrived
> yet...
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Stephan
>
>
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] [OT] Extending a figure on the external margin
From: "Siep"
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 22:40:19 +0200
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:21:19 -0400
Gary L. Gray wrote:
>
> Have TeX determine whether or not the page is even or odd and then
> include the graphic file:
>
> \newlength{\negevenjump}
> \newcommand{\bigfig}{%
> \ifthenelse{\isodd{\thepage}}%
> % then set \negevenjump to zero;
> {\setlength{\negevenjump}{0mm}}%
> % otherwise set \negevenjump to a value which makes the graphic
> % aligned with the left margin of even numbered pages.
> {\setlength{\negevenjump}{-\marginparsep - \marginparwidth}}%
> % Now simply include the graphic.
> \hspace{\negevenjump}\includegraphics{yourfigname}
> }
>
> I haven't tried this, but it gives you the general idea (I have simply
> modified some code we have to do this from a book we are writing). Note
> it does not use the figure environment, which gives a float, so you
> will have to determine the placement of your figure and create the
> caption.
>
> You might also search for this in comp.text.tex on Google.
>
> Good luck,
>
> -- Gary L. Gray
This test for even/odd pagenumber is far from foolproof: when this test is
made, it is not yet known whether or not the fragment will go on this page
or move to the next one.
It is safer to create a label \label{xxx} and test whether \pageref{xxx}
is even or odd.
--
Siep Kroonenberg
siepo@cybercomm.nl
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Where to put cls/sty
From: "Martin Stokhof"
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 23:06:10 +0200
Another way to go about is to create a texmf tree with the relevant
structure in the Library in your home directory. In your case:
~/Library/texmf/tex/latex
The advantage is that when you install a new version of teTeX the files
are not overwritten. All files placed in this texmf tree are
immediately available.
Best,
Martin Stokhof
On Wednesday, Sep 25, 2002, at 21:39 Europe/Amsterdam, Juan Manuel
Palacios wrote:
>
> Somewhere in your /usr/local tree you should have a directory named
> something like teTeX.local. If you are running the latest Gerben's
> packages then that should be /usr/local/teTex.texmf.local/, where you
> should find other directories named tex/latex/. Create a new directory
> with the name of the package you are trying to install and place the
> relevant files in there.
>
> To make your teTeX installation aware of the new packages you should
> run the command "sudo texhash" and all the information about the
> available classes and packages in your system should be updated.
>
> Hope that helps. Regards,...
>
>
> Juan.
>
> On Wednesday, September 25, 2002, at 03:14 PM, Stephan Hochhaus wrote:
>
>> Hello list!
>>
>> I have finally to download my very first custom package and
>> successfully create a .cls and .sty file from it using TeXShop
>> becuase every other way failed.
>> Now where would I put these files in order to be able to work with
>> them? Should they be placed in the /usr/local/teTex folder or is it
>> enough to place them in the TeXShop directory?
>> I am still very new to this and my LaTeX companion book hasn't
>> arrived yet...
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>> Stephan
>>
>>
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Where to put cls/sty
From: "Juan Manuel Palacios"
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:12:51 -0400
On Wednesday, September 25, 2002, at 05:06 PM, Martin Stokhof wrote:
> Another way to go about is to create a texmf tree with the relevant
> structure in the Library in your home directory. In your case:
> ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex
> The advantage is that when you install a new version of teTeX the files
> are not overwritten. All files placed in this texmf tree are
> immediately available.
>
> Best,
> Martin Stokhof
>
Files in the teTeX.texmf.local tree shouldn't be overwritten by an
update either, that's why they bear the label "local", but the
~/Library/texmf/ tree should be just as fine. They way I like to think
of it is that the non standard files desired to be available to all
system users in a multi user workstation should go in teTeX.texmf.local/
and the non standard files that a particular user wants to use without
sharing with other users should go in the private ~/Library/texmf tree.
I think that's the most organized way to do it, but that's just my
taste...
On the other hand, are you sure Martin that they files in the
~/Library/texmf tree don't need "texhash" run on them to become
available?
Regards,...
Juan.
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Where to put cls/sty
From: "Fredrik Wallenberg"
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:37:39 -0700
On Wednesday, Sep 25, 2002, at 14:12 US/Pacific, Juan Manuel Palacios
wrote:
> On the other hand, are you sure Martin that they files in the
> ~/Library/texmf tree don't need "texhash" run on them to become
> available?
>
No texhash needed. I have the following structure in my local texmf
tree:
~/Library/texmf
/bibtex
/bib
mybibliography.bib
/bst
bibtexstyles.bst
/tex
/figures
variouspics.jpg
variouspics.eps
variouspics.pdf
/includes
preamble.tex
/prosper
prosper style files etc.
/styles
mystyles.sty
/texslides
texslides style files etc.
This works great for me and I get no complaints from LaTeX.
Fredrik
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Where to put cls/sty
From: "Juan Manuel Palacios"
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 18:32:21 -0400
On Wednesday, September 25, 2002, at 05:37 PM, Fredrik Wallenberg wrote:
>
> No texhash needed. I have the following structure in my local texmf
> tree:
>
...snip...
>
> This works great for me and I get no complaints from LaTeX.
>
> Fredrik
Cool, I'll give it a try to check by myself and if I succeed I'll
claim yet again that we actually do learn something new everyday!
Regards,...
Juan.
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