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MacOSX-TeX Digest #445 - Thursday, October 3, 2002
Re: [OS X TeX] GS help?
by "Gerben Wierda"
Re: [OS X TeX] GS help?
by
Re: [OS X TeX] GS help?
by "Tom Kiffe"
Re: Fwd: [OS X TeX] GS help?
by "Tom Kiffe"
Re: [OS X TeX] GS help?
by "Gerben Wierda"
Re: [OS X TeX] GS help?
by
Re: [OS X TeX] Ghostscript 7 compatibility?
by "Ralph Martin"
Re: [OS X TeX] GS help?
by "Gerben Wierda"
Re: [OS X TeX] GS help?
by
Re: [OS X TeX] Context, MetaPost, etc
by "Patrick Gundlach"
Re: OT: [OS X TeX] Re: MANPATH Problem (but not with settcshtexpath ;-)
by "Juan Falgueras"
Re: OT: [OS X TeX] Re: MANPATH Problem (but not with settcshtexpath ;-)
by "Gerben Wierda"
Re: OT: [OS X TeX] Re: MANPATH Problem (but not with settcshtexpath ;-)
by "Gerben Wierda"
texdoc
by "Juan Falgueras"
Jaguar
by "Themis Matsoukas"
non-tex path issue (and ConTeXt installation)
by "Bruce D'Arcus"
Re: [OS X TeX] texdoc
by "Troy Goodson"
Re: [OS X TeX] Jaguar
by "Troy Goodson"
Re: [OS X TeX] Jaguar
by "Lee Phillips"
Re: [OS X TeX] Jaguar
by "Themis Matsoukas"
Re: [OS X TeX] texdoc
by "Gerben Wierda"
Re: [OS X TeX] Jaguar
by "Gary L. Gray"
Re: [OS X TeX] texdoc
by "Gerben Wierda"
Re: GS help
by
Re: [OS X TeX] Jaguar
by "Bruno Voisin"
Re: [OS X TeX] nevermind ... [was non-tex path issue (and ConTeXt install
by "Bruce D'Arcus"
Re: [OS X TeX] Jaguar
by "Bruno Voisin"
Xdvi can't find fonts, keeps rebuilding them
by "David Wagner"
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] GS help?
From: "Gerben Wierda"
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 02:12:31 +0200
On Thursday, Oct 3, 2002, at 01:48 Europe/Amsterdam,
trogers@math.fsu.edu wrote:
> I got:
> dyld: convert can't open library: /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
> (No such file or directory, errno =3D 2)
> Trace/BPT trap
>
> (looks like a real fubar on my part... but what to do?)
Sorry, I forgot, you also need to install the freetype i-package.
G
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] GS help?
From:
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:35:28 -0400
That worked, although the image is down in the left corner... is there
a modifier or something for that?
Is this the program called "convert"?
1 last question, how do start Imagemagick? Or use pstopdf? (did I say
1? oops.)
Ted
On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 08:12 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
> On Thursday, Oct 3, 2002, at 01:48 Europe/Amsterdam,
> trogers@math.fsu.edu wrote:
>
>> I got:
>> dyld: convert can't open library: /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
>> (No such file or directory, errno =3D 2)
>> Trace/BPT trap
>>
>> (looks like a real fubar on my part... but what to do?)
>
> Sorry, I forgot, you also need to install the freetype i-package.
>
> G
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] GS help?
From: "Tom Kiffe"
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:42:12 -0500
Ted Rogers wrote:
>That worked, although the image is down in the left corner... is there a =
modifier or something for that?
>Is this the program called "convert"?
>
>1 last question, how do start Imagemagick? Or use pstopdf? (did I say 1? =
oops.)
>
>Ted
>
>
As I said in an earlier post, the easiest way to convert eps to tiff is to =
use macps2pdf. It is included with MacGhostView, not MacGhostViewX. It =
even
runs in OS 9, so your friend can do the conversions himself. With =
macps2pdf
you can easily set the resolution of the resulting tiff and the tiff image
will have the correct bounding box and not be located down in the left
corner. Unlike ImageMagick, which just calls ghostscript to converts the =
eps
to pnmraw and then to tiff, macps2pdf uses ghostscript to convert eps
directly to tiff. Macps2pdf is an ordinary Mac program and you do not have
to use the command line interface of the Terminal program.
Yes, I wrote macps2pdf but that in no way affects my opinion. :-)
Tom
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Subject: Re: Fwd: [OS X TeX] GS help?
From: "Tom Kiffe"
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:42:26 -0500
Ross Moore wrote:
>
>Well, firstly, your files may have a line-ending problem.
>(but I don't think this is the real problem, see below)
>
>This mess (from below):
>
>%!PS-Adobe-2.0=3D20EPSF-1.2=3D0D%%BoundingBox:=3D20125=3D203=3D20473=3D204=
26=3D0D=3D
>%%HiResBoundingBox:=3D20125.938=3D203.1875=3D20472.25=3D20425.938=3D0D%%Cr=
eator:
>
>should look more like:
>
>
>%!PS-Adobe-2.0=3D20EPSF-1.2=3D0D
>%%BoundingBox:=3D20125=3D203=3D20473=3D20426=3D0D=3D
>%%HiResBoundingBox:=3D20125.938=3D203.1875=3D20472.25=3D20425.938=3D0D
>%%Creator:
>
>The =3D0D represents a \r (carriage-return)
>rather than a unix \n (new-line) character.
>So first open your Mathematica graphics in BBedit and resave
>as Unix, rather than Mac.
>Then try the ps2pdf route again.
>
>If that doesn't work, then maybe the Mathematica fonts
>are not included. That's what this seems to be saying:
> (after cleaning up the encoding for email attachment)
>
>%%DocumentNeededResources: font Math1
>%%+ font Times-Italic
>%%+ font Courier
>%%+ font Times-Roman
>%%DocumentSuppliedResources:
>%%DocumentNeededFonts: Math1
>%%+ Times-Italic
>%%+ Courier
>%%+ Times-Roman
>%%DocumentSuppliedFonts:
>%%DocumentFonts: Math1
>%%+ Times-Italic
>%%+ Courier
>%%+ Times-Roman
>%%EndComments
>
>The Mathematica font Math1 is needed, but not supplied in the .eps.
>Without it, you will not get GS to convert the file properly anyway.
>So you must either find the way to make Mathematica include all the fonts
>when it makes the .eps file, else send the publishers the .eps files
>(without fonts) and tell them to find the necessary resources and do
>the conversion.
>It won't be the first time that they have encountered such problems.
>
Two comments.
1) Ghostscript itself has no problems with Mac, Unix, or DOS line endings. =
The
ps2pdf script shouldn't have any problems either since it does not attempt =
to
read a ps file. The epstopdf script can have problems with line endings
since it is a perl script written specifically for Unix and it does =
attempt to
read the eps file.
2) Ghostscript is quite capable of adding the Mathematica fonts when it is
converting a Postscript or eps file. You simply have to add the pfa
Mathematica fonts to ghostscript's font directory and then modify the =
Fontmap.GS
file in ghostscript's lib directory. You should add these lines
/Math1 (Math1.pfb) ;
/Math1-Bold (Math1Bol.pfb) ;
/Math1Mono (Math1Mon.pfb) ;
/Math1Mono-Bold (Math1MonBol.pfb) ;
/Math2 (Math2.pfb) ;
/Math2-Bold (Math2Bol.pfb) ;
/Math2Mono (Math2Mon.pfb) ;
/Math2Mono-Bold (Math2MonBol.pfb) ;
/Math3 (Math3.pfb) ;
/Math3-Bold (Math3Bol.pfb) ;
/Math3Mono (Math3Mon.pfb) ;
/Math3Mono-Bold (Math3MonBol.pfb) ;
/Math4 (Math4.pfb) ;
/Math4-Bold (Math4Bol.pfb) ;
/Math4Mono (Math4Mon.pfb) ;
/Math4Mono-Bold (Math4MonBol.pfb) ;
/Math5 (Math5.pfb) ;
/Math5-Bold (Math5Bol.pfb) ;
/Math5Mono (Math5Mon.pfb) ;
/Math5Mono-Bold (Math5MonBol.pfb) ;
to Fontmap.GS.
--Tom
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] GS help?
From: "Gerben Wierda"
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 09:36:26 +0200
On Thursday, Oct 3, 2002, at 06:42 Europe/Amsterdam, Tom Kiffe wrote:
> 1) Ghostscript itself has no problems with Mac, Unix, or DOS line
> endings. The
> ps2pdf script shouldn't have any problems either since it does not
> attempt to
> read a ps file. The epstopdf script can have problems with line endings
> since it is a perl script written specifically for Unix and it does
> attempt to
> read the eps file.
The epstopdf I ship can handle all styles of line endings, though not a
mix of styles.
G
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] GS help?
From:
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 03:45:07 -0400
Tom Kiffe's MacGhostView with macps2pdf worked great.
(Illustrator seemed to do it to.)
I thank everyone very, very much.
I'd still like to know how to startup ImageMagick that I have
installed, if anyone cares to enlighten me -the standard "type the name
of program" didn't work.
Thanks,
Ted
:)
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Ghostscript 7 compatibility?
From: "Ralph Martin"
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:47:59 +0100
On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 09:24 pm, B. Farwer wrote:
> ... any thoughts on the compatibility of GS7 with Jaguar? I heard that
> things have improved, but I still get misplaced accents and Umlauts.
This can be worked round by editing the ps2pdf file in /usr/local/bin
as follows:
replace
exec ps2pdf12 "$@"
by
exec ps2pdf13 "$@"
ralph
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] GS help?
From: "Gerben Wierda"
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 09:59:57 +0200
On Thursday, Oct 3, 2002, at 09:45 Europe/Amsterdam,
trogers@math.fsu.edu wrote:
> I'd still like to know how to startup ImageMagick that I have
> installed, if anyone cares to enlighten me -the standard "type the
> name of program" didn't work.
There is no "ImageMagick" program. ImageMagick is the name of a suite
of command line tools, convert is one of those tools.
See
man ImageMagick
for details.
The tools have their own man pages, the tools have many powerful
options. See for instance
man convert
G
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] GS help?
From:
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 04:29:35 -0400
Aha!
Thanks. I'm learning a lot.
Ted
On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 03:59 AM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
> On Thursday, Oct 3, 2002, at 09:45 Europe/Amsterdam,
> trogers@math.fsu.edu wrote:
>
>> I'd still like to know how to startup ImageMagick that I have
>> installed, if anyone cares to enlighten me -the standard "type the
>> name of program" didn't work.
>
> There is no "ImageMagick" program. ImageMagick is the name of a suite
> of command line tools, convert is one of those tools.
>
> See
>
> man ImageMagick
>
> for details.
>
> The tools have their own man pages, the tools have many powerful
> options. See for instance
>
> man convert
>
> G
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Context, MetaPost, etc
From: "Patrick Gundlach"
Date: 03 Oct 2002 10:24:29 +0200
Juan Falgueras writes:
Hi,
Has someone be installed the impressive Hans Hagen packages?
> How?
since they are updated on an almost daily :) base (at least the beta),
I prefer to install context by downloading it and installing it
manually. (I.E. editing the texmf.cnf, generating format files etc.)
But this requires some knowledge of "How TeX finds files" and perhaps
unix-terminal program (shell).
If you have some questions with regards to context, you might want to
subscribe to the context mailing list (see pragma-ade.com for
details).
Patrick
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Subject: Re: OT: [OS X TeX] Re: MANPATH Problem (but not with settcshtexpath ;-)
From: "Juan Falgueras"
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:19:02 +0200
Gerben, firstly thanks, many thanks, you are very kindful.
I'll look for the config file that set the environment variable
MANPATH trying to put up to date those config files (fink?) and in
the meanwhile i'll follow your trick :), that of course, works!
My .tcshrc has its first line sourcing /sw/bin/init.csh and...
W16:16:20 ~ 8% cat /sw/bin/init.csh | grep setenv
setenv MANPATH /sw/share/man:/sw/man:${MANPATH}:/usr/X11R6/man
setenv MANPATH
/sw/share/man:/sw/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/u=
sr/X11R6/man
setenv INFOPATH /sw/share/info:/sw/info:$INFOPATH
setenv INFOPATH
/sw/share/info:/sw/info:/usr/local/share/info:/usr/local/lib/info:/usr/loca=
l/info:/usr/share/info
setenv CLASSPATH `cat /sw/share/java/classpath`:$CLASSPATH
setenv CLASSPATH `cat /sw/share/java/classpath`
setenv PERL5LIB /sw/lib/perl5:$PERL5LIB
setenv PERL5LIB /sw/lib/perl5
# setenv DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH /sw/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
# setenv DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH /sw/lib
setenv HTTP_PROXY $PROXYHTTP
setenv http_proxy $PROXYHTTP
setenv FTP_PROXY $PROXYFTP
setenv ftp_proxy $PROXYFTP
W16:16:32 ~ 9%
What do you suggest?
23:57 +0200 2/10/02, Gerben Wierda escribe:
>On Wednesday, Oct 2, 2002, at 23:06 Europe/Amsterdam, Juan Falgueras =
wrote:
>
>>>Make sure you have *NO* MANPATH environment variable set at all.
>>>Then man will work just fine.
>>
>>
>> Oh!
>>
>>that did the magic
>>
>>but, then, should be in my .login a
>>
>> unsetenv MANPATH
>>
>>??
>
>man used to be governed through a MANPATH environment variable.
>Nowadays, the default setting is in a configuration file
>/etc/manpath.conf. But when MANPATH *is* available, the config file
>is ignored. When you have an older setup where somewhere in your
>system (generic startup files for your shell, fink, whatever), a
>MANPATH is set, it prevents you from using the newer mechanism. I do
>suspect, having a MANPATH variable is faster, so what you could do
>is set
>
> setenv MANPATH `manpath -q`
>
>in your .login. That will read manpath.conf and output the result
>which is then set in your MANPATH variable. Now, man will use this
>variable. If manpath.conf changes, you need to restart your shell or
>re-run .login. Note, this is untested, I just think this would work.
>
>The situation is somewhat like TeX. There used to be all kinds of
>environment variables for TeX (TEXINPUTS, etc), nowadays these are
>found in a configuration file. Like with man, if you set TeX's
>environment variables, the ones on the config files are ignored (and
>you might get problems because of that).
>
>G
>
>PS. (see subject of this thread) why do people always blame me for
>their problems? ;-)
>
--
juan
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Subject: Re: OT: [OS X TeX] Re: MANPATH Problem (but not with settcshtexpath ;-)
From: "Gerben Wierda"
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:47:51 +0200
On Thursday, Oct 3, 2002, at 16:19 Europe/Amsterdam, Juan Falgueras
wrote:
> What do you suggest?
Complain with the fink maintainers.
G
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Subject: Re: OT: [OS X TeX] Re: MANPATH Problem (but not with settcshtexpath ;-)
From: "Gerben Wierda"
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:03:29 +0200
On second thoughts:
On Thursday, Oct 3, 2002, at 16:19 Europe/Amsterdam, Juan Falgueras
wrote:
> Gerben, firstly thanks, many thanks, you are very kindful.
Given that the thread has a subject line that says there is a problem
with my software while it is (again) fink, yes, I am full of kindness
;-)
> I'll look for the config file that set the environment variable
> MANPATH trying to put up to date those config files (fink?) and in the
> meanwhile i'll follow your trick :), that of course, works!
>
>
> My .tcshrc has its first line sourcing /sw/bin/init.csh and...
I do not know what finks says, but it is better to have that in .login
in my opinion.
> W16:16:20 ~ 8% cat /sw/bin/init.csh | grep setenv
> setenv MANPATH /sw/share/man:/sw/man:${MANPATH}:/usr/X11R6/man
> setenv MANPATH
> /sw/share/man:/sw/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/share/
> man:/usr/X11R6/man
2? And the latter completely overrides MANPATH.
> What do you suggest?
Complain loudly. They have had months to fix this. The right solution
is that they do something like
setenv MANPATH /sw/share/man:/sw/man:`manpath -q`:/usr/X11R6/man
G
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Subject: texdoc
From: "Juan Falgueras"
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 19:02:21 +0200
What are the commands in .../powerpc-apple-darwin-current/ that
can be used?
% texdoc latex
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texdoc: netscape:
command not found
--
juan
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Subject: Jaguar
From: "Themis Matsoukas"
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 13:48:21 -0400
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I am thinking of switching from 10.1.5 to 10.2.
1] will I have to reinstall any of the tex package (tetex, TeXshop,
Mathtimes)?
2] is TeXShop with syntax coloring on as slow as was reported earlier in
this list?
3] does it take special tricks to get things to work in 10.2?
4] is the switch worth it? I am referring to the
efficiency/compatibility with respect to tetex/TeXShop
Thanks
Themis Matsoukas
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I am thinking of switching from 10.1.5 to 10.2.
1] will I have to reinstall any of the tex package (tetex, TeXshop,
Mathtimes)?
2] is TeXShop with syntax coloring on as slow as was reported earlier
in this list?
3] does it take special tricks to get things to work in 10.2?
4] is the switch worth it? I am referring to the
efficiency/compatibility with respect to tetex/TeXShop
Thanks
Themis Matsoukas
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Subject: non-tex path issue (and ConTeXt installation)
From: "Bruce D'Arcus"
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 13:58:51 -0400
For anyone who wants to easily keep up to date with the latest ConTeXt
betas, there's an installer script that can help make this easier at:
http://www.hobby.nl/~scaprea/context/
Problem: it requires--to quote from the script itself--"that the the
unzip command
is in the path for executables." Under Jaguar, it is not (I get a
"command not found" error if I use unzip). How do I fix this?
Thanks,
Bruce
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] texdoc
From: "Troy Goodson"
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:11:48 -0700
On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 10:02 AM, Juan Falgueras wrote:
> What are the commands in .../powerpc-apple-darwin-current/ that can
> be used?
>
>
> % texdoc latex
> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texdoc: netscape:
> command not found
>
Apparently texdoc relies on some environment variables {from man
texdoc}:
$TEXDOCVIEW_dvi
DVI viewer. Defaults to xdvi(1).
$TEXDOCVIEW_pdf
PDF viewer. Defaults to acroread(1).
$TEXDOCVIEW_ps
PostScript viewer. Defaults to ghostview(1).
$TEXDOCVIEW_html
HTML viewer. Defaults to netscape(1).
$TEXDOCVIEW_txt
Text viewer. Defaults to $PAGER-more.
I suspect Gerben Wierda can set these up in his distribution. I think
there's a way to use osascript to find out what the user's browser is,
etc. but I haven't found it, yet.
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Jaguar
From: "Troy Goodson"
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:21:16 -0700
On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 10:48 AM, Themis Matsoukas wrote:
> I am thinking of switching from 10.1.5 to 10.2.
>
> 1] will I have to reinstall any of the tex package (tetex, TeXshop,
> Mathtimes)?
I installed Jaguar with the option to save and restore my Users
directory. I had to reinstall all my 'personal' Unix stuff, including
teTeX & Ghostscript. I also went to the latest TeXShop version.
> 2] is TeXShop with syntax coloring on as slow as was reported earlier
> in this list?
TeXShop's speed doesn't bother me, but I'm using an 800 MHz G4
PowerBook. I suspect it's not as fast as NeXT, but I don't know for
sure...
> 3] does it take special tricks to get things to work in 10.2?
Not for me.
> 4] is the switch worth it? I am referring to the
> efficiency/compatibility with respect to tetex/TeXShop
there are some fixes to the PDF stuff in 10.2.1 that I'm very happy to
have (including some PDF bugs that I reported to
), so it was worth it for me.
Troy.
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Jaguar
From: "Lee Phillips"
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:10:04 -0400
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:48:21PM -0400, Themis Matsoukas wrote:
> I am thinking of switching from 10.1.5 to 10.2.
>
> 1] will I have to reinstall any of the tex package (tetex, TeXshop,
> Mathtimes)?
After I upgraded from 10.1 to 10.2 the TeXshop system seemed to still work =
the
same.
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Jaguar
From: "Themis Matsoukas"
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:09:43 -0400
Thanks - I should have mentioned I run on an 800 MHz G3 iMac.
TM
On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 02:21 PM, Troy Goodson wrote:
>
> On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 10:48 AM, Themis Matsoukas wrote:
>
>> 2] is TeXShop with syntax coloring on as slow as was reported earlier
>> in this list?
>
> TeXShop's speed doesn't bother me, but I'm using an 800 MHz G4
> PowerBook. I suspect it's not as fast as NeXT, but I don't know for
> sure...
>
>
> Troy.
>
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] texdoc
From: "Gerben Wierda"
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 22:21:59 +0200
On Thursday, Oct 3, 2002, at 20:11 Europe/Amsterdam, Troy Goodson wrote:
>
> On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 10:02 AM, Juan Falgueras wrote:
>
>> What are the commands in .../powerpc-apple-darwin-current/ that can
>> be used?
>>
>>
>> % texdoc latex
>> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texdoc: netscape:
>> command not found
>>
>
> Apparently texdoc relies on some environment variables {from man
> texdoc}:
>
> $TEXDOCVIEW_dvi
> DVI viewer. Defaults to xdvi(1).
>
> $TEXDOCVIEW_pdf
> PDF viewer. Defaults to acroread(1).
>
> $TEXDOCVIEW_ps
> PostScript viewer. Defaults to ghostview(1).
>
> $TEXDOCVIEW_html
> HTML viewer. Defaults to netscape(1).
>
> $TEXDOCVIEW_txt
> Text viewer. Defaults to $PAGER-more.
>
> I suspect Gerben Wierda can set these up in his distribution. I
> think there's a way to use osascript to find out what the user's
> browser is, etc. but I haven't found it, yet.
My guess is that these are pretty simple in Mac OS X. This works for
say 'texdoc web2c.pdf'
setenv TEXDOCVIEW_dvi 'open %s'
setenv TEXDOCVIEW_pdf 'open %s'
setenv TEXDOCVIEW_ps 'open %s'
setenv TEXDOCVIEW_html 'open %s'
setenv TEXDOCVIEW_txt 'open %s'
I have noticed that .dvi (texdoc dvips.dvi) does not work with TeXShop.
TeXShop starts, but the file is not displayed, probably because I
cannot write in the directory where the docs are. I will adapt
altpdftex to handle this.
G
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Jaguar
From: "Gary L. Gray"
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:33:51 -0400
On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 04:10 PM, Lee Phillips wrote:
>> 1] will I have to reinstall any of the tex package (tetex, TeXshop,
>> Mathtimes)?
>
> After I upgraded from 10.1 to 10.2 the TeXshop system seemed to still
> work the
> same.
It depends on how you go to 10.2. If you "Upgrade", then everything
will work the same. If you archive and install, then you will get a
nice fresh OS installation, but you will have to reinstall Gerben's
teTeX-TeXLive distribution.
-- Gary L. Gray
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] texdoc
From: "Gerben Wierda"
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 22:36:23 +0200
The next release of altpdftex will have a --outdir flag. This will
enable you to directly translate DVI files in read-only locations to
ps/pdf files in writable locations.
altpdftex --outdir ~
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/doc/programs/dvips.dvi
will take dvips.dvi from its read-only location and write the pdf file
in your home directory.
Front ends may use this flag when they are confronted with a request to
translate a DVI file in a non-writable location. Together with the
texdoc environment variables, this will make texdoc fully functional.
G
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Subject: Re: GS help
From:
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:50:10 -0400
Me again.
macps2pdf (eps2tiff) works fine for me and i have converted my friends
files -but 2 of them continually will not open for him.
he is on OS 9.2.2.
i wonder if there is anyone who might privately (as i can't send them
through list) take a quick peek at these 2 small images to see if their
is something inherently wrong with them or is just his system?
this is only happening on 2 of his 5 images (.eps).
further, he says the following -all due to leads you all have given us:
"...after copying Math1.pfa into the ghostscript fonts folder in the
MacGhostView folder -- but that didn't work either. However, mustn't
there be a way tell MacGhostView how to access every font it needs? Did
I copy the wrong file? Or to the wrong place?"
thanks in advance,
Ted
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Jaguar
From: "Bruno Voisin"
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 22:50:20 +0200
Themis Matsoukas wrote:
> 2] is TeXShop with syntax coloring on as slow as was reported earlier in =
> this list?
From my own experience, and I just checked again (I am running a G4
PowerMac at 400 MHz with 384 Mb RAM): for a typical 150 kb LaTeX
document, it takes more than 5 minutes to syntax-colour the whole
document on opening (you can litterally see the lines being processed
one by one).
The worse, however, happens when you actually try to do some editing: it
takes about 1/2 second to display or erase a single character. It's the
first time in my life as a computer user that I can actually type faster
than my computer is able to display! (About my typing speed: I'm not a
programmer, but I used to play the piano on my spare time for several
years, so I guess my typing speed is about average.)
> 4] is the switch worth it? I am referring to the
> efficiency/compatibility with respect to tetex/TeXShop
For TeXShop, apart from the above, the only change I noticed is that
dragging EPS or DVI documents onto TeXShop for having them converted to
PDF does not work any longer. The command line tools still work, however.
For GhostScript the OS X bug that prevented some PDF files created by
GhostScript 7 to be displayed correctly by Preview.app and TeXShop is
gone. There are other, new problems with some accents (see two recent
threads on this list), but they are indeed minor and easily resolved.
The most interesting thing, in any case, is not related to TeXShop but
to OS X itself: almost all components of the system (at least those
visible to an average user like me) have been significantly modified
inside, generally for the better. For example:
- Preview.app can display and export more graphical formats (it's not
yet GraphicConverter, but coming closer to it),
- almost all System Prefs have redesigned old and original new settings,
- the connection to other computers, including Windows PCs and Unix
wokstations running Samba servers is now absolutely transparent in the
"Connect to server..." (Cmd-K) Finder window, you see all available
computers whatever OS they are running,
- Print Center has been redesigned, it is now much much more flexible.
I'm just mentioning here the features that I immediately think of, there
are many others I'm forgetting right now.
So, in this respect, I think the switch is really worth it. (And you're
"hearing" this from somebody who had his account messed up in the
upgrade process, who had to recreate another account, migrate all his
files, modify permissions accordingly, reinstall several softwares,
finally spending hours on the phone with Apple technical support and on
the whole losing one week of work time on the process.)
Bruno Voisin
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] nevermind ... [was non-tex path issue (and ConTeXt installation)]
From: "Bruce D'Arcus"
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:52:30 -0400
Duh...unzip is only installed with the developer tools, it seems, and
they aren't installed on this machine. Hence...
Bruce
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Jaguar
From: "Bruno Voisin"
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 23:02:54 +0200
Gary L.Gray wrote:
> It depends on how you go to 10.2. If you "Upgrade", then everything will =
> work the same. If you archive and install, then you will get a nice
> fresh OS installation, but you will have to reinstall Gerben's
> teTeX-TeXLive distribution.
Actually teTeX's file are not gone, they are moved in the same directory
as the old system, in an invisible directory /Previous Systems/Previous
System 1/usr/local/teTeX. The same happens to Virex, should you have it,
which is moved to /Previous Systems/Previous System 1/usr/local/vscanx.
But in any case it's probably safer, and faster, to reinstall teTeX
afresh using Gerben's installer. Be sure, however, to retrieve the local
customizations that you may have done, from the invisible directory
/Previous Systems/Previous System 1/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local
where they have been moved, and to transfer them to the new installation
before erasing this /Previous Systems directory.
Bruno Voisin
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Subject: Xdvi can't find fonts, keeps rebuilding them
From: "David Wagner"
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 18:41:26 -0500
I have Gerben Wierda's tetex installed via his i-installer. It was
up-to-date as of a week ago or so. I run MacOS X 10.2.1. I also have =
xdvi
installed via fink.
xdvi cannot seem to find existing pk fonts; it keeps trying to make new
ones. I have run texconfig and done texhash, and xdvi seems to be reading
the ls-R files (checked with fs_usage).
I have also imported a number of files from /var/tmp to the
/usr/local/teTeX/... Tree using the command given in the texconfig FAQ. I
have used texconfig to tell tex not to put fonts in /var/tmp. This is =
what
I get:
wagner% xdvi sem-user.dvi &
[1] 218
[d189:doc/latex/seminar] wagner% kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour
--bdpi 600 --mag 1+57/600 --dpi 657 cmcsc10
mktexpk: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/fonts/pk/public/cm/cmcsc10.657pk
already exists.
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 1+437/600 --dpi
1037 cmcsc10
mktexpk: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/fonts/pk/public/cm/cmcsc10.1037pk
already exists.
Etc, etc, etc.
I will appreciate any advice that you can give me.
David Wagner
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