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MacOSX-TeX Digest #446 - Sunday, October 6, 2002
Re: [OS X TeX] Jaguar
by "Richard Seguin"
Re: [OS X TeX] Jaguar
by "Adrian Heathcote"
Re: [OS X TeX] Xdvi can't find fonts, keeps rebuilding them
by "William McCallum"
Re: [OS X TeX] Jaguar
by "Luis Sequeira"
Re: [OS X TeX] Jaguar (with OT addition)
by "Bruno Voisin"
Re: [Fink-users] MANPATH
by "Martin Costabel"
Re: [OS X TeX] Jaguar
by "Bob Kerstetter"
i-Installer & Jaguar (10.2) Trivial Fix
by "Aaron D. Lewis"
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Jaguar
From: "Richard Seguin"
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 20:20:08 -0700
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On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 10:48 AM, Themis Matsoukas wrote:
> I am thinking of switching from 10.1.5 to 10.2.
>
> 2] is TeXShop with syntax coloring on as slow as was reported =
earlier=3D20=3D
> in this list?
>
> Thanks
>
> Themis Matsoukas
>
Syntax coloring is very slow on my 550 MHz Powerbook G4 with 1GB of=3D20
RAM. I prefer using syntax coloring, but I've turned it off and have=3D20
gotten used to living without it. As soon as it's fixed I'll eagerly=3D20
start using it again.
Richard S=3DE9guin
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On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 10:48 AM, Themis Matsoukas wrote:
I am thinking of switching from 10.1.5 to 10.2.
2] is TeXShop with syntax coloring on as slow as was reported earlier
in this list?
Thanks
Themis Matsoukas
Syntax coloring is very slow on my 550 MHz Powerbook G4 with 1GB of
RAM. I prefer using syntax coloring, but I've turned it off and have
gotten used to living without it. As soon as it's fixed I'll eagerly
start using it again.
Richard S=3DE9guin
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Jaguar
From: "Adrian Heathcote"
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:34:46 +1000
Themis
I did a simple upgrade and did not have any of Bruno's problems:
archive and install seems to cause more trouble than it's worth. In my
experience the move to 10.2.1 was well worth it; though I
simultaneously upgraded TeTeX and TeXShop---no problems since then with
either.
> 4] is the switch worth it? I am referring to the
> efficiency/compatibility with respect to tetex/TeXShop
These worked before and they work since. I haven't noticed myself any
slow up with syntax colouring.
But the real improvements are in the Quartz PDF display engine for
postscript. Word, for example, now works, in a way that it patently
didn't before (obviously the fault was with Apple rather than
MS---surprise!) and I suspect that everything that uses postscript
fonts has been smoothed out a little (i.e. Illustrator, Omnigraffle,
etc.) So if these apps are important in your work flow---and they are
in mine, since I write in TeX but must give journals articles that are
in Word format, these changes make 10.2.1 a must-have upgrade.
My 0.02 Euros
Adrian Heathcote
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Xdvi can't find fonts, keeps rebuilding them
From: "William McCallum"
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 20:20:13 -0700
Have you followed the instructions in the description of fink's xdvi
package? You can access them by typing fink describe xdvi on the
command line. There are some lines you have to add to a config file to
avoid this problem.
On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 04:41 PM, David Wagner wrote:
> 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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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Jaguar
From: "Luis Sequeira"
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:33:23 +0100
>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.
I am using 10.2.1 and am able to do the conversion of eps files with =
TeXShop.
My method was to control-click the eps file and choose Open with...
I did not try it with dvi files.
Luis
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Jaguar (with OT addition)
From: "Bruno Voisin"
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 10:51:54 +0200
Luis Sequeira wrote:
> I am using 10.2.1 and am able to do the conversion of eps files with
> TeXShop.
> My method was to control-click the eps file and choose Open with...
> I did not try it with dvi files.
Thanks: very helpful.
On a completely different topic, but since Adrian Heathcote mentioned MS
Word in this thread earlier this morning: I just read
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2097
and I am getting very excited, could it be that soon in the future I
will be able to erase all MS stuff from my computer, and still be able
to deal with the notation and timetable .xls worksheets, .doc grant
application forms, that I often have to work on? (For the interested:
this URL reports, from O'Reilly Mac OS X conference, the current state
of the OpenOffice/NeoOffice suite, which is getting X-independent and
Aqua instead. That's also a call for developers to join in.)
Sorry for the OT stuff, but since we already mentioned MATLAB on the
list, I thought there might also be some people interested in OpenOffice.
Bruno Voisin
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Subject: Re: [Fink-users] MANPATH
From: "Martin Costabel"
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 13:23:12 +0200
Juan Fal wrote:
> New Jaguar scheme of access man pages differs from the previous
>and collides with it!
>
>the MANPATH environment variable should not be set at all since now
>man finds the pages based in "manpath" and /etc/manpath.conf
>settings.
It is clear that fink has to do something about this, but it is not
immediately clear what. IIUC the new scheme for the manpath
configuration allows only the one config file /etc/manpath.conf.
Modifying this would be against fink's philosophy, and for good
reasons. As long as it is not possible to teach manpath to use
another config file, for example in /sw/etc/, fink needs to set
MANPATH. It just should set it by using `manpath -q` as one of the
components. This has to be done after teh PATH variable is set.
AFAICT, the only problem so far is with Gerben Wierda's tetex package
in /usr/local, and this problem could be solved by modifying fink's
system-tetex package so that it sets this MANPATH component in its
shell startup script in /sw/etc/profile.d/
>I am not sure about this because I am not a following each update, but =
must I
>
> source /sw/bin/init.csh
>
>in my ~/.login ?
>
>
>/sw/bin/init.csh _does_ set MANPATH:
>
>--------
>% grep MANPATH /sw/bin/init.csh
>if ( $?MANPATH) then
> setenv MANPATH /sw/share/man:/sw/man:${MANPATH}:/usr/X11R6/man
> setenv MANPATH
>/sw/share/man:/sw/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/=
usr/X11R6/man
>--------
>
>
> Systems like tetex does conflict with this since they use the
>current scheme.
>
--
Martin
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Jaguar
From: "Bob Kerstetter"
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:21:01 -0500
I am new with little experience, but converting dvi and ps works fine
with TeXShop. Drag and drop them on the TexShop icon in the doc. Using
10.2.1. To install 10.2.1, I backed up the User directories, clean
installed, then restored the user directories. Then installed
third-party software, such as OmniWeb, Create, teTex and TeXShop. Been
a Mac user since 1985 and I never do an upgrade install for a major
update. With OS X that might not be necessary, but backing up, clean
installing and restoring took about two hours, so did not see the point
of the other types of installations.
On Friday, Oct 4, 2002, at 03:33 US/Central, Luis Sequeira wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I am using 10.2.1 and am able to do the conversion of eps files with
> TeXShop.
> My method was to control-click the eps file and choose Open with...
> I did not try it with dvi files.
>
> Luis
>
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Subject: i-Installer & Jaguar (10.2) Trivial Fix
From: "Aaron D. Lewis"
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 12:25:23 -0700 (PDT)
Hope no one has already posted this - I don't read the list constantly:
I was unable to install TeX Foundation, and TeX Programs with the latest
version of the i-Installer (Sep. '02). It failed with a confusing
error, just like the one below reported on 8/27 by Troy Goodson:
---
rcmd: getaddrinfo: No address associated with nodename
tar (grandchild): Cannot open archive
/Users/tdg/Documents/Files/installers:updaters/i-Installer.app/Contents/Res=
ources/Packages/teTeX-texmf.ii/teTeX-texmf.tar.gz:
Input/output error
tar (grandchild): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
/Users/tdg/Documents/Files/installers:updaters/i-Installer.app/Contents/Res=
ources/gnutar:
Child returned status 1
/Users/tdg/Documents/Files/installers:updaters/i-Installer.app/Contents/Res=
ources/gnutar:
Error exit delayed from previous errors
Task terminated with status 2
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The files are there, and I could tar xzvf them by hand just fine...
Here's the solution - don't rename any of the folders in the path to
i-Installer with unhappy characters.
In my case, I had renamed a folder from 'i-Installer' to 'i-Installer
(tetex/gs)', I believe in Troy's case, the problem is with his
'installer:updaters' folder.
In either case, apparently one of the sub-programs in the install script
can't parse the path properly (I bet it didn't like my "/"), and they
fail...
I renamed my folder to 'i-Installer' and it ran without problems.
cheers,
-Aaron
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