[OS X TeX] Re: [OS X TeX]

Chetan Nayak nayak at kitp.ucsb.edu
Tue Mar 27 06:32:32 CEST 2007


Thanks. That fixed the problem.

Obviously, I'm still living in the 20th (if not the 19th) century,
but it's time for me to enter the modern world. MacTeX sounds like
a good place to start. However, I'm still using TeXShop. Is there a  
newer/better
front end with which I should replace this?


On Mar 26, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Alan Munn wrote:

> At 12:34 PM -0700 3/26/07, Chetan Nayak wrote:
>> I have the following strange problem, but have not been able to  
>> find any possible
>> causes/solutions on the web. I recently re-installed teTeX after my
>> hard drive crashed and had to be replaced. Prior to this, I have  
>> been using these
>> programs for almost 5 years with no problems. (Back when I first  
>> installed these
>> programs, the TeX engines were put in /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc- 
>> apple-darwin-current.
>> Now, Fink Commander put them in /sw/bin and /sw/share, but it's  
>> hard to see how
>> this is the source of the problem once TeXShop knows where to find  
>> them.)
>
> One word of warning.  teTeX is no longer being supported, and  
> Fink's teTeX is pretty old.  You might want to think about  
> intalling the MacTeX TeX Live distribution http://www.tug.org/mactex/
>
>> Now, however, I have the following problem with altpdflatex: the  
>> top margin
>> is too small (maybe even negative), so the text starts up at the  
>> top of the page,
>> and the page numbers don't appear. The problem doesn't occur when  
>> I use pdflatex,
>> only when I use altpdflatex, and it doesn't seem depend on which  
>> distiller
>> I use -- the same problem occurs for both ghostscript and the  
>> built-in distiller in OS X.
>> Any suggestions?
>
> It sounds like the page size is set for A4 for dvips.  Try the  
> following:
>
> sudo texconfig dvips paper letter
>
> Alan
>
>
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