[OS X TeX] FontForge and TeX i-Package update

Steffen Wolfrum osxtex at st.estfiles.de
Mon Mar 21 15:12:06 CET 2005


Bruno Voisin <bvoisin at mac.com> wrote:

>  I think there are two solutions (well, actually three):
>
>  - From Terminal.app, type in sequence, in case your shell is bash:
>
>  	DISPLAY=:0.0; export DISPLAY
>  	fontforge
>
>  (with return in between the two lines), and similarly if your shell is
>  tcsh:
>
>  	setenv DISPLAY :0.0
>  	fontforge
>
>  See <http://www.misplaced.net/fom/X11/37.html>.
>
>  - From X11.app, type simply:
>
>  	/usr/local/bin/fontforge
>
>  - More GUI: in X11.app, go to Applications > Customize..., then add a
>  new item:
>
>  	Name: FontForge
>  	Command: /usr/local/bin/fontforge
>
>  and use this new item from the Applications item.
>
>  Hope this helps,
>
>  Bruno Voisin


Yes it helped. I didn't know that

if (! $?DISPLAY) then
         setenv DISPLAY :0.0
endif

used in csh.cshrc doesn't work in 10.3.8 anymore.

Thank you!

Steffen
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