[OS X TeX] [ANN] Carbon mac-emacs LaTeX-enhanced 2.0 for Jaguar

Joseph C. Slater joseph.slater at wright.edu
Wed Nov 6 00:42:48 CET 2002



Worked fine for me (no real usage yet).
Joe
On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 04:55  PM, Warren Nagourney wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Thanks for compiling this version of emacs - unfortunately it crashes  
> before loading on my BW G3/350 running jaguar. (I copied it into  
> /Applications) Any idea what is wrong?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Warren Nagourney
>
> On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 11:43  AM, Enrico Franconi wrote:
>
>> I've just uploaded the new release 2.0 of the LeTeX enhanced carbon
>> emacs, for MacOS X 10.2 (Jaguar).
>>
>> This emacs is based on the standard emacs-21.3.50 CVS distribution (as
>> of 5 November 2002), enhanced with fully customisable LaTeX editing
>> environment based on AucTeX, RefTeX and other packages.  There is no
>> need to have X11 installed; MacOS X 10.2 (Jaguar) 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.  LaTeX menus are
>> fully customisable.  You can see it as a complete front-end to tetex.
>>
>> MAIN CHANGES since 1.4
>> - Latest versions of emacs and latex packages
>> - 3 buttons mice with scroll wheel do work
>> - Added conversion to html with tex4ht
>> - Emacs application now completely independent
>> - Hopefully more robust to find tetex and gs binaries
>> - Works in Jaguar
>>
>> If you downloaded any previous version you are invited to download
>> this new version.
>>
>> Get it from   http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~franconi/mac-emacs/
>>
>> NOTES:
>> - This version of emacs requires MacOS X 10.2 (Jaguar).
>> - No X11 is required.
>> - This LaTeX enhanced emacs requires a working installation of teTeX
>>   and ghostview; t4ht is required to convert latex files to hmtl.  In
>>   order to install teTeX and ghostview check the web page at
>>   http://www.rna.nl/tex.html; t4ht can be installed via fink
>>   (http://fink.sourceforge.net).
>> - 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.
>> - As usual, emacs loads automatically the file ~/.emacs if it exists.
>>   An example .emacs file (mirroring the default values for the LaTeX
>>   enhancements) can be found in the doc/ folder as dot-emacs.el. You
>>   can fully customise the Command menu and the launched applications.
>> - If the provided dot-emacs.el is copied in your personal ~/.emacs
>>   file, automagically the emacs bundled with MacOS X (in /usr/bin) and
>>   the fink installed emacs (in /sw/bin) will become LaTeX 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/MacOS/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs
>>   to any directory 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.
>>
>> - ADVANCED USERS: the directory
>>   /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/share/emacs/site-lisp/
>>   contains all the files necessary to recreate a LaTeX 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 instruction to create a dumped image with
>>   most of the packages preloaded.
>>
>> COMMENTS and SUGGESTIONS WELCOME!
>>
>> Enrico Franconi                     - franconi at 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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