[OS X TeX] Re: MacOSX-TeX Digest #1763 - 06/16/06
Ben Tipping
btipping at fas.harvard.edu
Sun Jun 18 16:09:02 CEST 2006
I will be out of my office from 8 June 2006 to 20 June 2006 inclusive.
On Jun 16, 2006, at 8:00 PM, "TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List"
<MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
> MacOSX-TeX Digest #1763 - Friday, June 16, 2006
>
> Using TeXShop with Transmit
> by "S P Suresh" <spsuresh at cmi.ac.in>
> Re: [OS X TeX] foo and foo-sys
> by "Peter Dyballa" <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE>
> Re: [OS X TeX] Using TeXShop with Transmit
> by "Peter Dyballa" <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE>
> Re: [OS X TeX] Using TeXShop with Transmit
> by "Michael Williams" <williams at astro.ox.ac.uk>
> "insert reference" command doesn't work
> by "Lawrence Paulson" <lawrence.paulson at googlemail.com>
> Re: [OS X TeX] "insert reference" command doesn't work
> by "Themis Matsoukas" <matsoukas at psu.edu>
> Re: [OS X TeX] "insert reference" command doesn't work
> by "Samuel Lelievre" <samuel.lelievre at univ-rennes1.fr>
> Re: [OS X TeX] "insert reference" command doesn't work
> by "Richard Seguin" <riseguin at earthlink.net>
> Re: [OS X TeX] "insert reference" command doesn't work
> by "Themis Matsoukas" <matsoukas at psu.edu>
> Re: [OS X TeX] "insert reference" command doesn't work
> by "Richard Seguin" <riseguin at earthlink.net>
>
>
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>
> Subject: Using TeXShop with Transmit
> From: "S P Suresh" <spsuresh at cmi.ac.in>
> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:03:46 +0530
>
> Hi,
>
> I am two months into Mac OS X, gwtex, and TeXshop, and I enjoy it
> immensely. I enjoy the discussions on this mailing list, and have
> learnt a lot here. Thanks and best wishes to all the regular
> contributors.
>
> I have a (maybe slightly off topic) doubt.
>
> I use the FTP client Transmit to access files in remote locations. I
> notice that when I edit a remote TeX file with TeXshop and typeset,
> the pdf file isn't created in the remote location. It has to be
> somewhere local, but where is it!? Is there some standard place where
> TeXshop stores such temporary files, or are there standard locations
> that Transmit uses!?
>
> Cheers,
> Suresh
>
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>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] foo and foo-sys
> From: "Peter Dyballa" <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE>
> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:14:31 +0200
>
>
> Am 15.06.2006 um 21:36 schrieb Gerben Wierda:
>
>> That cat is out of the bag now for over a year and the problems
>> seem to stay and not become less. So, I am wondering if I could not
>> better return to the old way of doing it and have a 'enable
>> personal configurations' option in Expert mode.
>
> Since the next TeX i-Packages will deviate from dead teTeX it's
> probably a good idea to make live easy on a Mac again – but, what's
> left is TeXLive, and TeXLive uses the foo and foo-sys utilities, too
> ...
>
> If you were going to deviate from this, for some time (years) you
> will need to provide a 'repro' tool that makes the user the owner of
> the files in ~/Library/texmf/web2c again! 'sudo foo' or 'sudo -H foo'
> surely was used by many, and then more often than just once.
>
>
> Somehow these utilities will need to understand that they either work
> on a personal setup or an a system-wide – will this be done via a '-
> sys' switch on the command line?
>
> --
> Greetings
>
> Pete
>
> "engineer: a mechanism for converting caffeine into designs"
>
>
>
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>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Using TeXShop with Transmit
> From: "Peter Dyballa" <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE>
> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:15:40 +0200
>
>
> Am 16.06.2006 um 12:33 schrieb S P Suresh:
>
>> I notice that when I edit a remote TeX file with TeXshop and
>> typeset, the pdf file isn't created in the remote location.
>
> In the LOG and TeXShop's console window you would see for example:
>
> This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.994a (Web2C 7.5.3)
> entering extended mode
> (./file.tex
> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
> …
> [1] (./file.aux) )
> (see the transcript file for additional information)
> Output written on file.pdf (1 page).
> Transcript written on file.log.
>
> This means, it all happens in that directory (folder) in which the
> TeX source file is. Did you think of sync'ing the contents of your
> local representation of the remote folder's contents with the
> contents of the remote folder (bi-directional connection, permission
> to read and write on the FTP server, i.e. get and put)? Did you open
> TeXShop's console to see what it does? (You have to check this in the
> right-most tab of TeXShop's preferences.) I presume the windows
> Transmit opens are like those of Finder, then you could Cmd-click the
> icon in the windows title next to the text and it will show the
> complete path to this folder, which might tell you about the place ot
> the place you are searching ...
>
> --
> Greetings
>
> Pete
>
> “One cannot live by television, video games, top ten CDs, and dumb
> movies alone”
> (Amiri Baraka 1999)
>
>
>
>
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>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Using TeXShop with Transmit
> From: "Michael Williams" <williams at astro.ox.ac.uk>
> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:14:35 +0100
>
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 04:03:46PM +0530, S P Suresh wrote:
>> I use the FTP client Transmit to access files in remote locations. I
>> notice that when I edit a remote TeX file with TeXshop and typeset,
>> the pdf file isn't created in the remote location. It has to be
>> somewhere local, but where is it!? Is there some standard place where
>> TeXshop stores such temporary files, or are there standard locations
>> that Transmit uses!?
>
> When you edit on a remote server, Transmit actually makes a local copy
> and uploads it when it detects saved changes. It saves this local copy
> in ~/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/Transmit/.tmp_xxxxxx, where
> xxxxxx is (presumably random) series of letters generated fresh for
> each
> file. I assume this is where you'll find the TeXShop output.
>
> --
> Michael Williams
>
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>
> Subject: "insert reference" command doesn't work
> From: "Lawrence Paulson" <lawrence.paulson at googlemail.com>
> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:20:17 +0100
>
> The "insert reference" command is handy, but in the past couple of
> months it has stopped working. TeXShop thinks for a bit and then
> presents a modal alert saying
>
> AppleScript Error
> TeXShop got an error: AppleEvent timed out.
>
> Any idea what could be wrong?
>
> Larry Paulson
>
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>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] "insert reference" command doesn't work
> From: "Themis Matsoukas" <matsoukas at psu.edu>
> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:44:22 -0400
>
> On Jun 16, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Lawrence Paulson wrote:
>
>> The "insert reference" command is handy, but in the past couple of
>> months it has stopped working. TeXShop thinks for a bit and then
>> presents a modal alert saying
>>
>> AppleScript Error
>> TeXShop got an error: AppleEvent timed out.
>>
>> Any idea what could be wrong?
>
> It was broken in the previous beta but works now in the latest
> TeXShop Version 2 (2.09d).
>
> Themis
>
>
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>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] "insert reference" command doesn't work
> From: "Samuel Lelievre" <samuel.lelievre at univ-rennes1.fr>
> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:14:58 +0100
>
> Themis wrote:
>
>> On Jun 16, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Lawrence Paulson wrote:
>>
>>> The "insert reference" command is handy, but in the past couple of
>>> months it has stopped working. TeXShop thinks for a bit and then
>>> presents a modal alert saying
>>>
>>> AppleScript Error
>>> TeXShop got an error: AppleEvent timed out.
>>>
>>> Any idea what could be wrong?
>>
>> It was broken in the previous beta but works now in the latest
>> TeXShop Version 2 (2.09d).
>>
>> Themis
>
> Applescript was broken in TeXShop 2.10-beta but works
> in TeXShop 2.10-beta2, so you don't have to revert to
> TeXShop 2.09d if you're fine with using the new beta,
> just upgrade to TeXShop 2.10-beta2, which you find at
> http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/
>
> Samuel
>
>
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>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] "insert reference" command doesn't work
> From: "Richard Seguin" <riseguin at earthlink.net>
> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:05:54 -0500
>
> I just tried this with beta2, and I'm getting the same error message.
>
> Richard Séguin
>
> On Jun 16, 2006, at 12:14 PM, Samuel Lelievre wrote:
>
>> Themis wrote:
>>
>>> On Jun 16, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Lawrence Paulson wrote:
>>>
>>>> The "insert reference" command is handy, but in the past couple of
>>>> months it has stopped working. TeXShop thinks for a bit and then
>>>> presents a modal alert saying
>>>>
>>>> AppleScript Error
>>>> TeXShop got an error: AppleEvent timed out.
>>>>
>>>> Any idea what could be wrong?
>>>
>>> It was broken in the previous beta but works now in the latest
>>> TeXShop Version 2 (2.09d).
>>>
>>> Themis
>>
>> Applescript was broken in TeXShop 2.10-beta but works
>> in TeXShop 2.10-beta2, so you don't have to revert to
>> TeXShop 2.09d if you're fine with using the new beta,
>> just upgrade to TeXShop 2.10-beta2, which you find at
>> http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/
>>
>> Samuel
>>
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>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] "insert reference" command doesn't work
> From: "Themis Matsoukas" <matsoukas at psu.edu>
> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:34:10 -0400
>
> On Jun 16, 2006, at 1:14 PM, Samuel Lelievre wrote:
>> Applescript was broken in TeXShop 2.10-beta but works
>> in TeXShop 2.10-beta2, so you don't have to revert to
>> TeXShop 2.09d if you're fine with using the new beta,
>> just upgrade to TeXShop 2.10-beta2, which you find at
>> http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/
>
>
> The texshop web site is a bit confusing. I thought I had updated to
> the latest beta while in reality I had reverted to 2.09d...
>
> On Jun 16, 2006, at 2:05 PM, Richard Seguin wrote:
>> I just tried this with beta2, and I'm getting the same error message.
>
> I just downloaded the latest beta (Version 2.10beta2 (237)) and
> Insert Reference works just fine.
>
> Themis
>
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>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] "insert reference" command doesn't work
> From: "Richard Seguin" <riseguin at earthlink.net>
> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:19:17 -0500
>
> My version said merely "Version 2.10beta2" without the "(237)", so I
> downloaded it again. This time I got "Version 2.10beta2 (237)", but
> the Insert Reference still gets the "Apple Event Timed Out" message.
> On the other hand, the Applescripts in the Macros/Applescript menu do
> seem to work.
>
> Richard Séguin
>
> On Jun 16, 2006, at 3:34 PM, Themis Matsoukas wrote:
>
>> On Jun 16, 2006, at 1:14 PM, Samuel Lelievre wrote:
>>> Applescript was broken in TeXShop 2.10-beta but works
>>> in TeXShop 2.10-beta2, so you don't have to revert to
>>> TeXShop 2.09d if you're fine with using the new beta,
>>> just upgrade to TeXShop 2.10-beta2, which you find at
>>> http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/
>>
>>
>> The texshop web site is a bit confusing. I thought I had updated to
>> the latest beta while in reality I had reverted to 2.09d...
>>
>> On Jun 16, 2006, at 2:05 PM, Richard Seguin wrote:
>>> I just tried this with beta2, and I'm getting the same error message.
>>
>> I just downloaded the latest beta (Version 2.10beta2 (237)) and
>> Insert Reference works just fine.
>>
>> Themis
>> ------------------------- Info --------------------------
>> Mac-TeX Website: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/
>> & FAQ: http://latex.yauh.de/faq/
>> TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
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>>
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