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MacOSX-TeX Digest #460 - Sunday, October 20, 2002
Re: [OS X TeX] BBOX for GS 7.05
by "Bruno Voisin"
Re: [OS X TeX] some trouble with OS X 10.2 and tetex
by "Michael Murray"
Re: [OS X TeX] some trouble with OS X 10.2 and tetex
by "Hemant Bhargava"
Re: [OS X TeX] some trouble with OS X 10.2 and tetex
by "Michael Murray"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXshop --> Alpha
by "Jon Guyer"
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] BBOX for GS 7.05
From: "Bruno Voisin"
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 13:55:56 +0200
It might be a bit late to post on this thread, but since problems with
incorrect bounding boxes were reported: some time ago Art Age Software
has released a series of (shareware) PS/EPS manipulation tools at
and they seem to still hang aroung. They run in
OS 9 and (I imagine) Classic.
From the description of one of the tools EPS Factory:
* You have an EPS file with an inaccurate bounding box comment.
This is one of the more common problems with EPS files. EPS Factory can
read your existing EPS file and create a new EPS file with correct
bounding box and hi-res bounding box information!
* You have a PostScript file that you would like to use as an EPS file.
That is, you would like to import it or place it into a document
created by an application that understands EPS, but balks at raw
PostScript. EPS Factory can create an EPS version of your PostScript
file, again complete with preview image and thumbnail if you choose.
Just in case!
Bruno Voisin
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] some trouble with OS X 10.2 and tetex
From: "Michael Murray"
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:48:15 +0930
>Hello,
>
>I installed OS X 10.2 today, and while all the other applications I
>looked at seemed to work, I cannot get TeXShop/tetex to work. When I
>open a TeX file in TeXshop, it shows up, but clicking on "LaTeX" only
>opens the console window. It does nothing more. I don't even see the
>tetex application anywhere on my disk.
>
>So I ran the i-installer, and updated everything (to 9/27/02), but even
>after that
>if I do "which tetex" it says application not found.
>
Hi
Do you mean tetex ? There isn't an application tetex.
I also saw your second post. What happens if you put a
tex file in your home directory and go into the teminal and
do
pdflatex test.tex (or whatever the file is called) ?
This gets TeXShop out of the picture and tests if the teTeX install
is working.
Have you got a .cshrc or anything ? If you have try
renaming it dotcshrc (mv .cshrc dotcshrc) and log in and out of Terminal
and try texing again.
Michael
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] some trouble with OS X 10.2 and tetex
From: "Hemant Bhargava"
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 08:52:25 -0400
Thanks, Michael. I copy the list in case it helps others as well who
have had similar problems, or might be planning to upgrade to 10.2.
Your comment regarding Fink: I had installed Fink once, under 10.1. (I
may even have tried to uninstall it later, I recall.) For my 10.2
update, I chose the archive and install option.
The command source /sw/bin/init.csh was in the .cshrc file, as you
indicated, and I have commented it out.
Finally, when I run latex from the prompt, I still get the "pool file"
and format failed errors. I've been to Gerben's site that you mention
below - and apparently I have already done the first part, which is to
construct a fresh installation with the dedicated installer. I might
well have a second copy sitting around, so I'll have to poke around
further.
Thanks again,
- Hemant
> Hi Hemant
>
> Actually before following my suggestions have a look at Gerben's page
>
> http://www.rna.nl/tex.html#pool
>
> which is supposed to be the answer to
>
> " Help! TeX says there is a problem with a "pool" file! "
>
>
>
>
>> Welcome to Darwin!
>> /sw/bin/init.csh: No such file or directory.
>
>
>
> This one I understand. You have at some point prior to installing
> 10.2.1 installed Fink. It places a command
>
> source /sw/bin/init.csh
>
> in your .cshrc file. When you launch Terminal your .cshrc is read and
> the
> OS tries to read the file /sw/bin/init.csh which is no longer there.
> I assume in the install of 10.2 you either did
> a completely new install or an archive and install which has moved
> all your Fink stuff somewhere else. You can stop this
> error by removing this line from your .cshrc or putting a comment
> symbol # in front of it.
>
>
>
> Michael
>
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> School of Pure Mathematics Fax: 61+ 8 8303 3696
> University of Adelaide Phone:
> 61+ 8 8303 4174 Australia 5005 Email:
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> http://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/pure/mmurray
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> http://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/pure/mmurray/pgp.txt
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> ________________________________________________________
>
>
>
>
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] some trouble with OS X 10.2 and tetex
From: "Michael Murray"
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:29:48 +0930
>Thanks, Michael. I copy the list in case it helps others as well who
>have had similar problems, or might be planning to upgrade to 10.2.
>
>Your comment regarding Fink: I had installed Fink once, under 10.1.
>(I may even have tried to uninstall it later, I recall.) For my 10.2
>update, I chose the archive and install option.
>
>The command source /sw/bin/init.csh was in the .cshrc file, as you
>indicated, and I have commented it out.
>
>Finally, when I run latex from the prompt, I still get the "pool
>file" and format failed errors. I've been to Gerben's site that you
>mention below - and apparently I have already done the first part,
>which is to construct a fresh installation with the dedicated
>installer. I might well have a second copy sitting around, so I'll
>have to poke around further.
>
>Thanks again,
>
>- Hemant
>
Hi Hemant,
Gerben says something about there maybe being files in ~/Library
that cause trouble. One thing I have found useful when troubleshooting
OS X problems is to go into System Pref's and create a brand new User. =
Then
log out and log into that User's account. That way you get a clean
set of Preferences and if things work OK there then something
in your Preferences or Library might be the problem.
Good luck !
Michael
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXshop --> Alpha
From: "Jon Guyer"
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 09:31:20 -0400
At 8:36 PM +1000 10/18/02, Adrian Heathcote wrote:
>No, not that it does not colour it. That the text is not broken into
>paragraphs, but rather has squares that signify where a return would
>have been in the original. And the text does not compile.
As others have said, it sounds like you've got mixed line endings. It
seems likely that Burkhard's suggestion is correct: the file was
first edited with Alpha or something else and saved with Mac line
endings, and that then subsequent edits with TeXshop added in
linefeeds. Alpha gets really confused by mixed line endings (and
usually would give a different error: "The file 'blah' had
inconsistent line terminations. They have been converted to Carriage
Returns. Saving this file may damage it if it contains binary data.")
If you can send me (not the list) the offending file, I'll see if I
can't figure out what's going on.
In general, Alpha's wrapping is not very sophisticated (it doesn't do
true soft wrapping, despite the "Soft" setting), but this should not
perturb TeX. Lines separated by single line breaks are treated as
contiguous text by TeX.
--
Jonathan E. Guyer
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