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MacOSX-TeX Digest #499 - Sunday, December 1, 2002
syntax coloring in TeXShop 1.25
by "Michael Murray"
Re: [OS X TeX] syntax coloring in TeXShop 1.25
by "Ross Moore"
Re: [OS X TeX] syntax coloring in TeXShop 1.25
by "Michael Murray"
Better get TeXShop 1.25 Again
by "Richard Koch"
Question - speeding LaTeX compiles
by "Richard Seguin"
Re: [OS X TeX] Better get TeXShop 1.25 Again
by "Michael Murray"
Re: [OS X TeX] Question - speeding LaTeX compiles
by "Ross Moore"
[ANN] Enhanced Carbon Emacs 2.1
by "Enrico Franconi"
Re: [OS X TeX] New Version of Emacs
by "M. Tamer =D6zsu"
Problem with ligatures in Times
by "William McCallum"
Re: [OS X TeX] Problem with ligatures in Times
by "Adrian Heathcote"
Output distorted and dislocated when printed
by "Gerben Wierda"
Re: [OS X TeX] Question - speeding LaTeX compiles
by "Tom Kiffe"
Re: [OS X TeX] Output distorted and dislocated when printed
by "Gerben Wierda"
Re: [OS X TeX] Problem with ligatures in Times
by "Ben Wooliscroft"
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Subject: syntax coloring in TeXShop 1.25
From: "Michael Murray"
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 13:49:25 +1030
I am seeing some strange things like:
\DeclareMathOperator{\vol}{vol}
\ is blue
DeclareMathOperator is black !
\DeclareMathOperator{\Aut}{Aut}
\ is blue
DeclareMathOperator is black !
both occurences of Aut are black !
\newcommand{\cH}{{\mathcal H}}
both H's are black although the \c before \cH is blue
This is different to what it used to do and
doesn't seem correct but obviously not a mission
critical problem I'm not suspending the countdown !
Thanks - Michael
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University of Adelaide Phone: 61+ 8 8303 4174
Australia 5005 Email: mmurray@maths.adelaide.edu.au
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] syntax coloring in TeXShop 1.25
From: "Ross Moore"
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 14:34:47 +1100 (EST)
Hi Michael,
you wrote:
> I am seeing some strange things like:
>
> \DeclareMathOperator{\vol}{vol}
>
> \ is blue
>
> DeclareMathOperator is black !
>
>
> \DeclareMathOperator{\Aut}{Aut}
>
> \ is blue
>
> DeclareMathOperator is black !
> both occurences of Aut are black !
>
> \newcommand{\cH}{{\mathcal H}}
>
> both H's are black although the \c before \cH is blue
This all seems to be consistent with:
\ followed by a string of (0 or more) lowercase letters
are colored blue.
Hence an uppercase letter becomes a delimiter, switching
the color back to black.
Is that a fair summary of what you see ?
Hope this helps to isolate the problem.
Cheers,
Ross
> This is different to what it used to do and
> doesn't seem correct but obviously not a mission
> critical problem I'm not suspending the countdown !
>
>
> Thanks - Michael
> --
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> University of Adelaide Phone: 61+ 8 8303 4174
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] syntax coloring in TeXShop 1.25
From: "Michael Murray"
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 14:52:45 +1030
Hi Ross
Well spotted but it seems trickier than that.
\declareMathOperator{\sign}{sign}
is completely blue except for the second occurence of `sign'
and the { } { } are green.
See you - 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: mmurray@maths.adelaide.edu.au
Home Page: http://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/pure/mmurray
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Subject: Better get TeXShop 1.25 Again
From: "Richard Koch"
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 20:25:53 -0800
Folks,
The author of TeXShop believes that a word contains
capitol letters from J to Z, or small letters from a to z.
He has been convinced by a couple of Australians
that the capitol letters from A to I also count.
If you got TeXShop 1.25 before 8:30 PST Saturday, Nov 30, please
download again.
http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop
Dick
koch@math.uoregon.edu
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Subject: Question - speeding LaTeX compiles
From: "Richard Seguin"
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 22:41:04 -0800
I have a vague recollection of having seen somewhere in on of my LaTeX=20=
books that there's a way of speeding compiles by essentially=20
precompiling in some way all of the stuff at the beginning of the=20
document, like package declarations and such, that tends to remain=20
constant. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I can't seem to=20
relocate my recollection in the books.
Out of curiosity, is there anyone on this list familiar with and=20
interested in abstract topological dynamics (i.e. Robert Ellis:=20
Lectures on Topological Dynamics) or ultrafilters on groups and group=20
compactifications?
Richard S=E9guin=
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Better get TeXShop 1.25 Again
From: "Michael Murray"
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 15:16:02 +1030
>Folks,
>
>The author of TeXShop believes that a word contains
>capitol letters from J to Z, or small letters from a to z.
>He has been convinced by a couple of Australians
>that the capitol letters from A to I also count.
>
> If you got TeXShop 1.25 before 8:30 PST Saturday, Nov 30, please
>download again.
>
> http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop
>
>Dick
>koch@math.uoregon.edu
>
Ah thats better. Thanks Dick.
We AAAAAustralians can't get by without capital A :-)
Michael
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3696
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Home Page: http://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/pure/mmurray
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Question - speeding LaTeX compiles
From: "Ross Moore"
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 15:59:08 +1100 (EST)
Hi Richard,
> I have a vague recollection of having seen somewhere in on of my LaTeX
> books that there's a way of speeding compiles by essentially
> precompiling in some way all of the stuff at the beginning of the
> document, like package declarations and such, that tends to remain
> constant. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I can't seem to
> relocate my recollection in the books.
You are talking about precompiling format (.fmt) files,
using the \dump command in TeX.
With Textures, this was quite a common thing to do.
However with teTeX, you need to use initex (or pdfinitex)
rather than tex (or pdftex) when you want to use \dump .
For LaTeX it is rather tricky to get the \dump at the best
possible place in your document source, for greatest effect.
I've written a package, called ldump.sty and distributed with
LaTeX2HTML, which does this by redefining some of the functionality
of various LaTeX internal commands.
I used to use it a lot, several years ago, but as computers have
gotten much faster the advantages have lessened.
(It would probably be very useful with jobs on demand; e.g.
requested from a website.)
Hope this helps,
Ross Moore
> Out of curiosity, is there anyone on this list familiar with and
> interested in abstract topological dynamics (i.e. Robert Ellis:
> Lectures on Topological Dynamics) or ultrafilters on groups and group
> compactifications?
>
> Richard S_guin
>
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Subject: [ANN] Enhanced Carbon Emacs 2.1
From: "Enrico Franconi"
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 05:55:23 +0000
I've just uploaded the new release 2.1 of the Enhanced Carbon Emacs,
for MacOS X 10.2.2 (Jaguar).
This emacs is based on the standard emacs-21.3.50 CVS distribution,
enhanced with many packages, including a fully customisable LaTeX
editing environment based on AucTeX, RefTeX and other packages. There
is no need to have X11 installed; MacOS X Jaguar (10.2.2) is required.
From emacs, you can launch directly any latex process or any mac
application (like MacDvi, MacGhostView, Acrobat Reader, TexShop,
OzTeX, etc) on files or regions you are working on.
CHANGES 2.0 --> 2.1
- Runs in MacOS X 10.2.2
- Added the set-environment application to fix paths
- New window dimension
- Added flyspell and outline modes
- Fixes in the dot-emacs.el file and in the command menu
- (thanks to the people who helped me to debug!)
If you downloaded any previous version you are invited to download
this new version.
Get it from http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~franconi/enhanced-carbon-emacs/
NOTES:
- To make a full install just copy the Emacs application from the disk
image to your /Applications folder.
- No X11 is required.
- In order to use the LaTeX enhancements, emacs requires a working
installation of teTeX and ghostview; t4ht is required to convert
latex files to hmtl. In order to install teTeX, ghostview and t4ht
check the web page at http://www.rna.nl/tex.html
- The Emacs application can not be moved from the /Applications
folder.
- The Emacs application accepts files drag-and-dropped onto its icon
or within a window buffer; three buttons mice with the scroll wheel
do work.
- In order to personalise the LaTeX command menu and the applications
to be used with LaTeX (e.g., the dvi, postscript, and pdf viewers),
the printers and the default paper format, copy the "dot-emacs.el"
file, found in the "emacs-docs" folder, into your ".emacs" file
located in your home folder. If you don't already have a ".emacs"
file in your home folder, then just copy the "dot-emacs.el" file as
the ".emacs" file in your home folder.
- If the provided dot-emacs.el is copied in your personal ~/.emacs
file, auto-magically the emacs bundled with MacOS X (in /usr/bin)
and the fink installed emacs (in /sw/bin) will become enhanced as
well.
- By latexing with the srcltx option checked from the Prefs menu, and
previewing with MacDviX (or other srcltx aware previewers), the
previewer can automatically invoke back emacs at the clicked
position (click-and-go).
- To launch carbon emacs from a shell, just copy the executable file
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs
to any folder where binaries are recognised by the shell.
- To have full multi-lingual (latex-aware) spelling checking
capabilities, just install "ispell" from fink. By now, fink provides
automatic installation of American, British, French, Italian and
German dictionaries; other languages should be installed by hand.
- A FAQ on the basic carbon emacs can be found at
http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/FAQ.txt
There you can find suggestions on how to handle fonts and diacritics
from carbon emacs.
- TROUBLES WITH PATHS: If latex binaries are not recognised from
within emacs, then launch the "set-environment" application found in
the "emacs-docs" folder. This will create a path-problem-solving
"environment.plist" file in the ".MacOSX" sub-folder of your home
folder.
- ADVANCED USERS: the directory
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/share/emacs/site-lisp/
contains all the files necessary to recreate an enhanced emacs; it
has been successfully tested with any emacs 21 on both Darwin (with
X11 or Carbon) and Linux (with X11) boxes. In the file INSTALL you
can find also instructions to create a dumped image with most of the
packages pre-loaded.
Enrico Franconi - franconi@inf.unibz.it
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - http://www.inf.unibz.it/~franconi/
Faculty of Computer Science - Phone: (+39) 0471-315-642
I-39100 Bozen-Bolzano BZ, Italy - Fax: (+39) 0471-315-649
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] New Version of Emacs
From: "M. Tamer =D6zsu"
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 08:31:22 -0500
Same problem here.
=3D=3DTamer
>
> This version of emacs wouldn't work fore me either, and I have the
> security update installed too.
>
> Rick
>
>> indeed, I've already installed Security Update 2002-11-21 1.0.
>
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Subject: Problem with ligatures in Times
From: "William McCallum"
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 08:02:51 -0700
For me, running TeXShop on the file below produces a pdf file in which
the fi ligature shows up as an upper case T with a dot under it. I
thought at first this might be a problem with my font installation, but
when Acrobat opens the same pdf file it shows the word correctly.
Preview.app has the same problem as TeXShop.
Could someone else try and see what the get?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{times}
\begin{document}
field
\end{document}
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Problem with ligatures in Times
From: "Adrian Heathcote"
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 02:13:03 +1100
William
I ran your test file and I get the fi ligature.
Adrian H.
On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 02:02 AM, William McCallum wrote:
> For me, running TeXShop on the file below produces a pdf file in which
> the fi ligature shows up as an upper case T with a dot under it. I
> thought at first this might be a problem with my font installation,
> but when Acrobat opens the same pdf file it shows the word correctly.
> Preview.app has the same problem as TeXShop.
>
> Could someone else try and see what the get?
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{times}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> field
>
> \end{document}
>
>
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Subject: Output distorted and dislocated when printed
From: "Gerben Wierda"
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 16:45:48 +0100
I am having serious problems with the placement of the output when
printing. I can demonstrate this using TeX, which has very finetuned
possibilities to place output on paper.
TeX comes with a standard LaTeX file, testpage.tex. This file, when
processed by latex asks you for a page size and if you want to test
double sided and then produces the output, which consists of a frame
that should be exactly 1 inch from each side. In the middle is some
text and at the sides are little rulers of 1 inch that extend to the
side. These are generally not entirely printed, and that tells you how
much of the paper you can actually use.
I have created the following files (A4 paper size and Letter paper
size):
DVI file: testpage-SIZE.dvi - by running "latex testpage.tex" and
choosing a4paper and not-doublesided
PostScript file: testpage-SIZE.ps - by running dvips on testpage.dvi
PDF file: testpage-pdflatex-SIZE.pdf - by running "pdflatex
testpage.tex" with the same choices
PDF file: testpage-dvips-SIZE.pdf - by running dvips and ps2pdf on
testpage.dvi
these files can be found here:
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/macosx/testpage-a4.dvi
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/macosx/testpage-a4.ps
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/macosx/testpage-pdflatex-a4.pdf
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/macosx/testpage-dvips-a4.pdf
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/macosx/testpage-letter.dvi
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/macosx/testpage-letter.ps
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/macosx/testpage-pdflatex-letter.pdf
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/macosx/testpage-dvips-letter.pdf
I have two printers, one is a Canon S630 connected to my Mac running
Mac OS X 10.2.2, the other is a NeXT Laser Printer connected to my
NeXT. All settings on all systems are for A4 paper. On the Mac, I can
also print to the NeXT through an IP-print queue. I have setup two such
queues, one using the generic PostScript Level 2 PPD (PostScript
Printer Driver) on the Mac and one with the NeXT PPD.
On the Mac, I can use TeXShop.app and Preview.app (Mac OS X) to print
to the locally connected Canon S630 and the remote NeXT Laser (through
two different PPDs)
On the NeXT I can print the DVI file directly using TeXView.app, the PS
file with Preview.app (NEXTSTEP) and the PDF file with OmniPDF.
Situation: Of all the different combinations I can use to print, only
the one printing the DVI-file using TeXView.app or or the PostScript
file using Preview.app (NEXTSTEP) on the NeXT gives a good result.
Since both do give a good result (especially since TeXView.app does) I
trust the files above to be correct.
Problem 1:
Preview.app (Mac OS X) changes the actual layout of the output. It
shrinks the output by approximately 3%. Probably what it tries to do is
make sure the entire contents of a page are printed, by taking the
unsuable edges of paper into account. This is corroborated by the fact
that Custom Page layout does not let you set the margins to 0. When you
do, it resets them to 0.25 inch for left, top and right and 0.56inch
for bottom. In other words, Mac OS X's PDF previewer is broken with
respect to producing truthful output from PDF files with respect to
size on paper (and you can imagine what this does to output produced at
the pixel level, as you can with TeX. Suddenly that nicely created
600dpi output is printed at 618dpi and the printer is going to solve
the problem of which pixels to print and which pixels not to print -
not nice). I am going to report this as a bug with Apple, but I would
like to know if people know a workaround.
Problem 2:
Printing from Mac to NeXT introduces a vertical shift of roughly 0.4
inch, which means the header slides off the top of the paper. I have no
idea where this originates. Maybe someone knows why this happens?
Problem 3:
On Mac OS X: TeXShop.app prints the size OK, but adds a 1 inch margin
to the top, shifting the bottom entirely off page when printed on the
local Canon S630. The combined effect of this 1 inch down and the
Mac-to-NeXT 0.4 inch up results in a 0.6 inch down when printed with
TeXShop from Mac to NeXT. This seems a TeXShop bug and will be reported
as such.
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Question - speeding LaTeX compiles
From: "Tom Kiffe"
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 09:51:50 -0600
> I have a vague recollection of having seen somewhere in on of my LaTeX
> books that there's a way of speeding compiles by essentially
> precompiling in some way all of the stuff at the beginning of the
> document, like package declarations and such, that tends to remain
> constant. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I can't seem to
> relocate my recollection in the books.
>
Take at look at the file mylatex.ltx in texmf/tex/latex/carlisle.
Tom
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Output distorted and dislocated when printed
From: "Gerben Wierda"
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 22:40:27 +0100
These two disappeared when I removed TeXShop's preferences and
restarted TeXShop.
On Sunday, Dec 1, 2002, at 16:45 Europe/Amsterdam, Gerben Wierda wrote:
> Problem 2:
> Printing from Mac to NeXT introduces a vertical shift of roughly 0.4
> inch, which means the header slides off the top of the paper. I have
> no idea where this originates. Maybe someone knows why this happens?
Probably I only tested this with TeXShop so it was not per se a generic
problem.
>
> Problem 3:
> On Mac OS X: TeXShop.app prints the size OK, but adds a 1 inch margin
> to the top, shifting the bottom entirely off page when printed on the
> local Canon S630. The combined effect of this 1 inch down and the
> Mac-to-NeXT 0.4 inch up results in a 0.6 inch down when printed with
> TeXShop from Mac to NeXT. This seems a TeXShop bug and will be
> reported as such.
>
G
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Problem with ligatures in Times
From: "Ben Wooliscroft"
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:54:55 +1300
William
I get the correct ligature also.
Cheers
Ben
On 02/12/2002 4:02 AM, "William McCallum" =
wrote:
> For me, running TeXShop on the file below produces a pdf file in which
> the fi ligature shows up as an upper case T with a dot under it. I
> thought at first this might be a problem with my font installation, but
> when Acrobat opens the same pdf file it shows the word correctly.
> Preview.app has the same problem as TeXShop.
>
> Could someone else try and see what the get?
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{times}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> field
>
> \end{document}
>
>
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