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MacOSX-TeX Digest #1386 - Saturday, May 28, 2005
Re: [OS X TeX] X11
by "Adam R. Maxwell"
Flashmode 2.1
by "Claus Gerhardt"
custom bib styles in bibdesk
by "Bilal Barakat"
Re: [OS X TeX] custom bib styles in bibdesk
by "Claus Gerhardt"
Re: [OS X TeX] What encoding should I use?
by "Peter Dyballa"
Re: [OS X TeX] What encoding should I use?
by "Peter Breitfeld"
Re: [OS X TeX] What encoding should I use?
by "Johan Almqvist"
Re: [OS X TeX] X11
by "Peter Breitfeld"
Re: [OS X TeX] X11
by "Peter Dyballa"
Re: [OS X TeX] What encoding should I use?
by "Peter Dyballa"
Re: [OS X TeX] What encoding should I use?
by "Peter Pagin"
Unwanted =F8 when writing o/
by "Jonas Wellendorf"
Is there a bigpdflatex?
by "Michael Hoppe"
Re: [OS X TeX] X11
by "Ettore Aldrovandi"
Re: [OS X TeX] What encoding should I use?
by "Johan Almqvist"
Re: [OS X TeX] Unwanted =F8 when writing o/
by
Re: [OS X TeX] X11
by "Peter Dyballa"
Re: [OS X TeX] Is there a bigpdflatex?
by "Peter Dyballa"
Re: [OS X TeX] Unwanted =F8 when writing o/
by "Jonas Wellendorf"
Multicol help
by "Christopher Allen"
Re: [OS X TeX] Multicol help
by "Peter Dyballa"
Re: [OS X TeX] What encoding should I use?
by "Jan Anderssen"
Re: [OS X TeX] Is there a bigpdflatex?
by "Michael Hoppe"
Re: [OS X TeX] Is there a bigpdflatex?
by "Maarten Sneep"
Re: [OS X TeX] Is there a bigpdflatex?
by "Peter Dyballa"
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] X11
From: "Adam R. Maxwell"
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 17:14:10 -0700
On May 27, 2005, at 13:57, Gerben Wierda wrote:
> On 27 May 2005, at 17:39, Rodrigo Banuelos wrote:
>
>
>> I am sure the following problem has come up (and solved) before
>> but I have not been able to find it in the list. I installed Tex
>> (using
>> Gerben Wierda's i-installer) on a new machine before installing
>> Apple's
>> X11. Now, when I type "latex", "tex" or xdvi on an X11 terminal I
>> get back
>> "bash: latex: command not found," and the same for the others. I
>> know this
>> to do with bash vs tcsh but, what is the permanent solution?
>>
>
> It does not have to do with bash vs tcsh. The problem is that xterm
> does not create login shells, but subshells only and as a result
> parts of the initialization (e.g. /etc/csh.login) are not read at
> all. Since the TeX i-Package has modified the shell login scripts,
> you do not get the right PATH.
>
> The solutions in the other replies (re-run TeX i-Package configure)
> will not help.
>
> There is (or at least I do not know) no generic file I could patch
> for X11 that would change this for *all* users. And the TeX install
> I provide is multi-user.
>
> Maybe some X11 guru can finally tell me how to do this system-wide.
> Maybe there is some personal .xinit file where you can change
> environment settings. I do not use X11, so I do not have the
> knowledge.
You can replace `xterm` with `xterm -ls` in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to
start the first xterm as a login shell. You should also change your
X11 "Terminal" menu command to run xterm -ls, as well, so future
shells will be login shells, but this writes to NSUserDefaults.
Users can also create a custom .xinitrc in their home directory to
override the system one.
--
Adam
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Subject: Flashmode 2.1
From: "Claus Gerhardt"
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 02:12:31 +0200
The three variants of Flashmode are now bundled into one package
containing Flashmode (BBEdit/TeXniscope), Flashmode-TS (TeXShop) and
Flashmode-ITM (iTeXMac).
Flashmode-TS works with the present regular version of TS 2.03
(downloaded later than May 24) and with the yet to come TS 1.41.
Current users of Flashmode will automatically receive an upgrade.
Claus
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Subject: custom bib styles in bibdesk
From: "Bilal Barakat"
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 02:09:53 +0100
>> Apologies for the daft question, but where do I need to put new .bst
>> bibliography style files in order for them to be available in
>> BibDesk's preview?
>>
>
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bst/
> ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bst/
>
> Both are secure, the first one needs a texhash.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
> Pete
Thanks to all who responded with helpful suggestions. Unfortunately,
none of these work for me. I've tried both these locations, and also
placed the new .bst next to the _only_ place where one of those styles
that do in fact show up in BibDesk's list is located on my drive, but
no luck, despite texhash and relaunching BibDesk.
Tried the whole thing with different .bst files and also tried entering
the name directly in the preview preference pane's style field, but
nothing works.
Any idea what might be broken? I'm running the most recent version of
BibDesk on 10.3.9 and am using the i-installer teTeX installation.
Best,
Bilal.
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] custom bib styles in bibdesk
From: "Claus Gerhardt"
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 03:16:31 +0200
I think you have to enter the name of the .bst style file directly
into the little field "BibTeX Style" in the Preferences/Preview. At
least I did and it works. However your entry won't stick, if you
change it.
Claus
On May 27, 2005, at 11:52, Bilal Barakat wrote:
> Apologies for the daft question, but where do I need to put
> new .bst bibliography style files in order for them to be available
> in BibDesk's preview?
> I've tried the ~/Library/texmf tree, the /usr/local/teTeX/share ..
> texmf tree, rehashed with texhash, all to no avail. Maybe I'm
> missing something obvious....
>
> Bilal.
>
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] What encoding should I use?
From: "Peter Dyballa"
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 10:37:11 +0200
Am 28.05.2005 um 01:14 schrieb Friedrich Vosberg:
> I'm using MacOSRoman since years. I think it would be more compatibel=20=
> if I would use UTF-8 (or somewhat in that kind). How can I switch my=20=
> whole TeX-system including all templates, sty- and lco-files etc.=20
> completely to that encoding (by one click ;-)?
>
> Does it make sense?
>
Not yet! TeX still can't use UTF-8, is resticted to 8 bit short=20
characters. Dominik Unruh's Unicode package enables the use of UTF-8 in=20=
a TeX document, but makes it unusable at places without this add-on.=20
Only XeTeX, still restricted to Mac OS X, uses UTF-8 natively.
Going away from MacRoman disables the use of any Carbon Emacs. They're=20=
only good when using Mac encodings.
A droplet that uses recode can do the conversion for you, if you want=20
to stay away from the command line, but probably there are too some=20
other and real Mac OS X applications for that use.
I switched to ISO Latin encodings, no. 1 (ISO 8859-1) and more no. 9=20
(ISO 8859-15). It's very seldom that I'd need UTF-8. Using TS1=20
(TextCompanionEncoding) I have a lot of macros that I can use to select=20=
glyphs from outside the ISO Latin world.
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Pete
Banken sprengen hei=DFt Sonne rein lassen.
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] What encoding should I use?
From: "Peter Breitfeld"
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 11:23:54 +0200
Am 28. Mai 2005 um 01:14 schrieb Friedrich Vosberg:
> Hi.
>
> I'm using MacOSRoman since years. I think it would be more compatibel=20=
> if I would use UTF-8 (or somewhat in that kind). How can I switch my=20=
> whole TeX-system including all templates, sty- and lco-files etc.=20
> completely to that encoding (by one click ;-)?
>
> Does it make sense?
>
I use gw-TeX with utf-8 and Emacs. You will need some more clicks to=20
migrate. But you don't have to change anything in the .sty etc files of=20=
\texmf, because it's all English and plain ascii.
The only thing I did was to \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} in my=20
LaTeX-Files. Before I used latin-1 encoding, so I had to to translate=20
all my .tex-Files to utf-8 using iconv.
Gru=DF Peter
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] What encoding should I use?
From: "Johan Almqvist"
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 11:29:47 +0200
On May 28, 2005, at 10:37, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Am 28.05.2005 um 01:14 schrieb Friedrich Vosberg:
>> I'm using MacOSRoman since years. I think it would be more
>> compatibel if I would use UTF-8 (or somewhat in that kind). How
>> can I switch my whole TeX-system including all templates, sty- and
>> lco-files etc. completely to that encoding (by one click ;-)?
>>
>> Does it make sense?
> Not yet! TeX still can't use UTF-8, is resticted to 8 bit short
> characters. Dominik Unruh's Unicode package enables the use of
> UTF-8 in a TeX document, but makes it unusable at places without
> this add-on. Only XeTeX, still restricted to Mac OS X, uses UTF-8
> natively.
I don't see this? I use \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} and everything
works fine (I use it basically because I am writing in English, and
have Swedish, Norwegian and Serbo-Croatian names in my text (inluding
BibTeX) -- which problems would I have? And as opposed to MacOSRoman,
utf-8 is portable.
> Going away from MacRoman disables the use of any Carbon Emacs.
> They're only good when using Mac encodings.
OK I don't use Emacs, I mostly use TeXShop and TextWrangler.
> A droplet that uses recode can do the conversion for you, if you
> want to stay away from the command line, but probably there are too
> some other and real Mac OS X applications for that use.
Regarding the actual conversion, I don't think there is much work to
do. All 'normal' TeX files that are installed by the packages are 7-
bit clean anyway, so it'd just be the files you have created yourself.
-Johan
--
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johan@almqvist.net
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] X11
From: "Peter Breitfeld"
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 11:38:05 +0200
Am 27. Mai 2005 um 23:22 schrieb Ettore Aldrovandi:
> On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 10:57:40PM +0200, Gerben Wierda wrote:
>> On 27 May 2005, at 17:39, Rodrigo Banuelos wrote:
>
>>> I know this to do with bash vs tcsh but, what is the permanent
>>> solution?
>
>> It does not have to do with bash vs tcsh. The problem is that
>> xterm does not create login shells, but subshells only and as a
>> result parts of the initialization (e.g. /etc/csh.login) are
>> not read at all. Since the TeX i-Package has modified the shell
>> login scripts, you do not get the right PATH.
>
>> There is (or at least I do not know) no generic file I could
>> patch for X11 that would change this for *all* users. And the
>> TeX install I provide is multi-user.
>
> /etc/csh.cshrc
>
> is read by non login shells.
>
> /etc/bashrc
>
> is read by interactive shells, I'm not sure if non-login--but I
> don't use bash, so I can't say precisely. (In scripts I invoke it
> as /bin/sh anyway.)
>
> So one could set the path there, although that's probably an
> inelegant solution.
>
> A more elegant solution could be to set the path in the
> .MacOSX/environment.plist file. In that way the correct
> environment would be inherited by X11.app and its children (via
> xinit).
That's about what I have on my system. The PATH is in
.MACOSX/environment.plist, then I have a .bashrc wich is a link to=20
.profile; this way login-shells and interactive shells behave the same.=20=
In .bashrc I read in the PATH with
export PATH=3D$(defaults read "${HOME}/.MacOSX/environment" PATH)
No login-shells, interactive shells and X11's xterm know the PATH as=20
well as Carbon-Emacs.
Gru=DF Peter
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] X11
From: "Peter Dyballa"
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 12:06:18 +0200
Am 28.05.2005 um 11:38 schrieb Peter Breitfeld:
> export PATH=3D$(defaults read "${HOME}/.MacOSX/environment" PATH)
>
Good statement!
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] What encoding should I use?
From: "Peter Dyballa"
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 12:17:06 +0200
Am 28.05.2005 um 11:29 schrieb Johan Almqvist:
> I use \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} and everything works fine
Don't you have to input ^^c3^^a4^^c3^^b6^^c3^^bc instead of =E4=F6=FC?
--
Greetings
Pete
"A mathematician is a machine that turns coffee into theorems."
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] What encoding should I use?
From: "Peter Pagin"
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 12:34:18 +0200
No. As Johan says, everything does work fine.
Best,
Peter
Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
> Am 28.05.2005 um 11:29 schrieb Johan Almqvist:
>
>> I use \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} and everything works fine
>
>
> Don't you have to input ^^c3^^a4^^c3^^b6^^c3^^bc instead of =E4=F6=FC?
>
> --=20
> Greetings
>
> Pete
>
> "A mathematician is a machine that turns coffee into theorems."
>
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Subject: Unwanted =F8 when writing o/
From: "Jonas Wellendorf"
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 11:37:33 +0000
Hi
I use the bibdesk (UTF-8 encoding) in combination with xelatex.
When I enter the sequence o/ in a title in bibdesk the result in the=20
compiled file is =F8. How do I avoid this?
Thank you,
Jonas=
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Subject: Is there a bigpdflatex?
From: "Michael Hoppe"
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 14:16:28 +0200
Dear colleagues,
after trying to add the benefit of font expansion to the Euler-fonts,
pdflatex gives up, because 65536 words of extra memory for PDF output
are not enough. In those good ol' Atari-day there was a
bigTeX-Version with more memory available. Is there a bigpdflatex as
well?
Michael
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] X11
From: "Ettore Aldrovandi"
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 09:46:39 -0400
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 11:38:05AM +0200, Peter Breitfeld wrote:
>
> export PATH=3D$(defaults read "${HOME}/.MacOSX/environment" PATH)
>
> No login-shells, interactive shells and X11's xterm know the PATH as
> well as Carbon-Emacs.
An elegant solution. Setting .MacOSX/environment.plist takes
care not only of X11.app but also, among other things,
Carbon-Emacs, as you mention.
The problem with .MacOSX/environment.plist is that it relies on
the user to set it up in the appropriate way. Gerben wants a
system-wide solution for X11.app--and he's right. That's way I
also suggested to edit /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. The question is,
if a user has set a .xinitrc, then will the global one be
executed? I haven't checked this.
On the other hand, here is a kludge. Open X11.app with
open -a X11
from the command line. This way it will inherit the correct
environment. Works for carbon-emacs too. No need to modify other
files.
Another system-wide kludge is the following. Force each xterm to
run a login shell by setting the appropriate resource in
/etc/X11/app-defaults.
--
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Department of Mathematics http://www.math.fsu.edu/~ealdrov
Florida State University aldrovandi at math.fsu.edu
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4510, USA +1 (850) 644-9717 (FAX: 4053)
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] What encoding should I use?
From: "Johan Almqvist"
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 16:38:29 +0200
On May 28, 2005, at 12:17, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Am 28.05.2005 um 11:29 schrieb Johan Almqvist:
>
>> I use \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} and everything works fine
>>
> Don't you have to input ^^c3^^a4^^c3^^b6^^c3^^bc instead of =E4=F6=FC?
>
Not if I use a UTF-8-aware text editor such as TeXShop, TextWrangler, =20=
BBEdit or vim.
TextEdit doesn't work, for example.
-Johan
--=20
Johan Almqvist
johan@almqvist.net
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Unwanted =F8 when writing o/
From:
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 11:45:40 -0400
> From: Jonas Wellendorf
> Date: 2005/05/28 Sat AM 07:37:33 EDT
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List
> Subject: [OS X TeX] Unwanted =F8 when writing o/
>=20
> Hi
> I use the bibdesk (UTF-8 encoding) in combination with xelatex.
>=20
> When I enter the sequence o/ in a title in bibdesk the result in the=20
> compiled file is =F8. How do I avoid this?
Are you using Hoefler? There are some flaws in that typeface, one of whic=
h is=20
that 'o/' forms a smart ligature oslash. I think that there are other=20
combinations that have similar problems. I you look at the xetex discussi=
on=20
archive you will find more information there. I was caught by the same bu=
g.
Stephen Moye
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] X11
From: "Peter Dyballa"
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 18:12:22 +0200
Am 28.05.2005 um 15:46 schrieb Ettore Aldrovandi:
> The question is, if a user has set a .xinitrc, then will the global
> one be
> executed? I haven't checked this.
When the user has an own .xinitrc the 'template' /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
will *not* be executed. Except it contains a statement like '.
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc' ... but that's far away from a good solution.
'. /etc/profile' might work better,
> Another system-wide kludge is the following. Force each xterm to
> run a login shell by setting the appropriate resource in
> /etc/X11/app-defaults.
>
Or you rename xterm to xterm.bin and create a shell script xterm that
invokes xterm.bin with -ls. This brings some inconvenience: 'xterm -e
' won't work -- it's the same as in Emacs why one can't
create a login shell to check the environment! (If someone would want
to launch an xterm to execute some script or such, it would have to be
then 'xterm.bin -e .')
The X resource for xterm to start with a login shell is:
XTerm*loginShell: true
But again: the users' .xinitrc files need to load the file with that
setting! The directory /etc/X11/app-defaults is *not* automatically
searched for files containing X resources, the environment variable
XAPPLRESDIR needs to be set to this value before. If the environment
has the variable XENVIRONMENT set, pointing to a file, this file is
automatically used to set the X11 run-time environment too. (X11 is an
almost as old hack as TeX is. Or Emacs.)
The easiest way is to maintain ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist, I think.
The file's manipulation with Perl should be easy, so a little script
could help us maintain that file ...
--
Greetings
Pete
"They're putting dimes in the hole in my head to see the change in me."
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Is there a bigpdflatex?
From: "Peter Dyballa"
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 18:15:05 +0200
Am 28.05.2005 um 14:16 schrieb Michael Hoppe:
> pdflatex gives up, because 65536 words of extra memory for PDF output=20=
> are not enough
pdf_mem_size is the setting. /usr/local/teTeX/texmf.cnf should be the=20
right file. Set pdf_mem_size to a value twice as much first, i.e.=20
131072. Doubling the value in each step should be fine.
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Pete
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Unwanted =F8 when writing o/
From: "Jonas Wellendorf"
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 16:33:10 +0000
P=E5 28. mai. 2005 kl. 15.45 skrev :
> Are you using Hoefler? There are some flaws in that typeface, one of=20=
> which is
> that 'o/' forms a smart ligature oslash. I think that there are other
> combinations that have similar problems. I you look at the xetex=20
> discussion
> archive you will find more information there. I was caught by the same=20=
> bug.
Thank you. I do use Hoefler,
Jonas
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Subject: Multicol help
From: "Christopher Allen"
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 15:45:50 -0400
I've been playing around with multicol some, cleaning up output, but
I'm still running into a few problems I cannot solve.
I had two problems that were bothering me initially:
1) I have a three-column list that it itemized (using enumerate). Every
item is of exactly the same size. I want all of the items to line up
across the page. But extra space is placed between the items in the
final column.
2) On the final page of several two-column pages the second column
didn't start at the top of the page. In an alternate version of the
document this problem shows up repeatedly through the document, and
sometimes in the first column of a page.
I should mention I'm using \raggedcolumns; not using it spaces things
very poorly since they're contained in minipage sections to guarantee
individual sections are not broken apart.
Things I've fixed:
1) I set finalcolumnbadness to -1. My impression is that this would
stop multicol from adding the white space between my items in the
right-most column. It seemed to work great... until I looked at the
alternate version. There it did nothing noticeable; the extra space
between items is still being added.
2) I used multicols* instead of multicol. This seemed to work great...
until I looked at the alternate version. In the alternate version it
did fix some of the column tops, but some of the column tops are still
not correct.
Has anyone encountered this before? Does anyone know what to do with
it? I know I can manually go through with \columnbreak to fix this.
However, I'm loathe to do that since I have many \ifthenelse statements
so that a number of variants can be produced.
Thanks,
Chris
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Multicol help
From: "Peter Dyballa"
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 23:04:39 +0200
Am 28.05.2005 um 21:45 schrieb Christopher Allen:
> I've been playing around with multicol some, cleaning up output, but=20=
> I'm still running into a few problems I cannot solve.
>
What about something different?
\usepackage{array,ragged2e,longtable}
\newenvironment{longtable}[1]{\begin{tabular}{#1}}{\end{tabular}}
\begin{longtable}{rl>{\RaggedRight}p{135mm}}
& \multicolumn{2}{l}{\Huge\so{Peter Dyballa}}\\[8.75mm]
\rule{9.375mm}{0mm}\textbf{\textit{Zur Person}} &=20
\multicolumn{2}{l}{Nationalit=E4t: deutsch}\\[.75mm]
& \multicolumn{2}{l}{nicht verheiratet}\\[1.25mm]
\textbf{\textit{Schulen}} & 08/66 - 11/68 & Grundschule in Polen, 3.=20
Klasse wg. Umsiedlung abgebrochen\\
\newpage
\end{longtable}
With longtable the table can stretch a few pages. Using the ragged2e=20
package you can make columns be ragged and be a specified maximum wide.=20=
The example above is from my recent CV. The leftmost column is mostly=20
empty, containing minor titles, the rightmost one is the one with text,=20=
up to two or three lines. The invisible ruler is necessary, otherwise=20
the spacing of the leftmost column changes a few times.
--
Mit friedvollen Gr=FC=DFen
Pete
Mac OS X is like a wigwam: no fences, no gates, but an apache inside.
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] What encoding should I use?
From: "Jan Anderssen"
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 17:26:59 -0400
> The only thing I did was to \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} in my LaTeX-
> Files.
after reading all of your comments, i wanted to find out more about
the limitations of utf-8 via inputenc. i found that it's not
mentioned in the documentation generated from inputenc.dtx, but that
you can generate documentation by running latex on utf8ienc.dtx,
which can be found on ctan.
the documentation is titled "Providing some UTF-8 support via
inputenc", so it might be of interest if people encounter characters
that don't seem to act appropriately.
jan
p.s. i recently switched to textwrangler and i'm very happy with it
too. it compiles tex with the help of scripts (see f.i. maarten
sneep's at http://www.nat.vu.nl/~sneep/tex/ or tom kiffe's http://
www.kiffe.com/textools.html), it has emacs key bindings, saves and
opens files via (s)ftp, very nice :)
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Is there a bigpdflatex?
From: "Michael Hoppe"
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 00:05:01 +0200
Thanks for your respond, Peter, but in
> /usr/local/teTeX/texmf.cnf
there's no entry for
> pdf_mem_size
I've set it to your recommended value of
>to a value twice as much first, i.e. 131072.
but without any positive effect. So, pdf_mem_size ist set properly,
but not used. What am I doing wrong?
Michael
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Is there a bigpdflatex?
From: "Maarten Sneep"
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 00:16:02 +0200
On 29 May 2005, at 0:05, Michael Hoppe wrote:
> Thanks for your respond, Peter, but in
>
>> /usr/local/teTeX/texmf.cnf
>
> there's no entry for
>
>> pdf_mem_size
By default there isn't.
> I've set it to your recommended value of
>
>> to a value twice as much first, i.e. 131072.
>
> but without any positive effect. So, pdf_mem_size ist set
> properly, but not used. What am I doing wrong?
did you do a 'sudo fmtutil --all' (no quotes)?
Maarten.
PS, I've enlarged my memory sizes to something a bit larger. The
exact keys with default values can be found in /usr/local/teTeX/share/
texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf Adding to main memory and/or extra_mem will
usually suffice.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%% memory changes (Maarten Sneep)
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Memory. Must be less than 8,000,000 total.
%
% For some xy-pic samples, you may need as much as 700000 words of
memory.
% For the vast majority of documents, 60000 or less will do.
%
main_memory =3D 2000000 % words of inimemory available; also applies to
inimf&mp
extra_mem_top =3D 2000000 % extra high memory for chars, tokens, etc.
extra_mem_bot =3D 4000000 % extra low memory for boxes, glue,
breakpoints, etc.
% ConTeXt is a memory hog...
extra_mem_top.context =3D 2000000
extra_mem_bot.context =3D 4000000
main_memory.context =3D 2000000
main_memory.mpost =3D 3000000
% Buffer size. TeX uses the buffer to contain input lines, but macro
% expansion works by writing material into the buffer and reparsing the
% line. As a consequence, certain constructs require the buffer to be
% very large. As distributed, the size is 50000; most documents can be
% handled within a tenth of this size.
buf_size =3D 500000
hyph_size =3D 2000 % number of hyphenation exceptions, >610 and
<32767.
nest_size =3D 2500 % simultaneous semantic levels (e.g., groups)
max_in_open =3D 15 % simultaneous input files and error insertions
param_size =3D 5000 % simultaneous macro parameters
save_size =3D 25000 % for saving values outside current group
stack_size =3D 1500 % simultaneous input sources
% Parameter specific to MetaPost.
% Maximum number of knots between breakpoints of a path.
% Set to 2000 by default.
% path_size.mpost =3D 30000
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Is there a bigpdflatex?
From: "Peter Dyballa"
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 00:20:44 +0200
Am 29.05.2005 um 00:05 schrieb Michael Hoppe:
> but without any positive effect. So, pdf_mem_size ist set properly,=20=
> but not used. What am I doing wrong?
>
Has the error message changed, i.e. is it still using 65536 or the new=20=
value?
--
Mit friedvollen Gr=FC=DFen
Pete
"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've
always worked for me."
-- Hunter S. Thompson
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