[OS X TeX] Installing two front ends?

[Joseph Slater]

Heck, see front ends at http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex. If it's missing 
anything, let me know and it will be added.
On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 12:09  PM, Holger Frauenrath wrote:

>
> On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 10:47 AM, Joseph Slater wrote:
>
>>> 	Now to my question, a very simple one to start with. Being a 
>>> somewhat beginner TeX user on the Linux platform I grew used to dvi 
>>> files but realized they are not used in Mac OS X.
>>
>> Not true. They depend on your preference. You can use traditional 
>> latex->dvi->ps->pdf, or pdflatex (replace latex with your favorite 
>> other if necessary).
>>
>>> I personally have no problems with pdf's, in fact I think they are 
>>> easier to handle, but I may encounter a situation where a friend or 
>>> colleague sends me dvi output without the source.
>>
>> Open the dvi in TeXShop or iTeXMac and it will be converted to pdf 
>> (as above). What's really happening is that they just call dvipdf. 
>> You can do this yourself from the command line.
>
> [snip]
>
>> Have as many front ends are you like.
>
> And among them are OzTeX and CMacTeX, which use DVI directly to view 
> files also in their OS X versions, as far as I know (please correct me 
> if I am wrong).
>
> Holger
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