[Mac OS X TeX] Emacs (no X11) with LaTeX installer (experimental)

[Chip Brock]

hi
I liked the sound of this, so I installed it. There was a warning on
installation:

[me:~/Desktop/mac-emacs-install] me% sudo ./mac-emacs-install myg4
* Binary installed on the Desktop
* Scripting addition installed
* Library installed in ~me/Library/mac-emacs
Warning: /myg4 already exists
* Root link not installed
[me:~/Desktop/mac-emacs-install] me%

When I open a file (the Latex2e.tex file from the examples in iTeXmac), I
indeed see the pretty color-coded file. I choose Latex2e and then View from
Command and I get

Running `View' on `/_region_' with ``~/Library/mac-emacs/bin/dvipdf
_region_.dvi;open -a 'Acrobat Reader 5.0' _region_.pdf ''
/Users/brock/Library/mac-emacs/bin/dvipdf: command not found: dvips [33]
/Users/brock/Library/mac-emacs/bin/dvipdf: command not found: gs [34]
2002-02-24 09:35:35.742 open[482] No such file: /_region_.pdf


and indeed a _region_.tex file on my desktop, but nothing happens. If I do
LatexPDF, the same stuff happens. If I then do C-c C-l, I get Acrobat reader
opening, but no file, as there isn't one to open.

I'm doing something stupid?

thanks

Ray Brock



On 2/23/02 7:26 PM, "Enrico Franconi" <franconi at cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:

> Download at: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~franconi/mac-emacs/
> 
> This is a wrapper around the emacs-21.1 for MacOSX available at
> http://www.porkrind.org/emacs/
> providing a complete fully customisable LaTeX editing environment.
> This is intended only to play with LaTeX on the MacOSX port of
> emacs-21. Do not take it seriously, since the port is still alpha
> software. It is nice, since it does not require X11. However, if you
> want a really robust environment, you should use it with emacs-20.7 on
> X11 (from fink); I use it every day since months. If somebody is
> interested, I can post the installer for emacs-20.7 on X11 as well.
> 
> To install type from a terminal:
> sudo ./mac-emacs-install machine-name
> where machine-name is the name of your computer;
> type your password when requested.
> 
> The installer will:
> - install the mac-emacs program on the Desktop
> - install "OSX PowerAddOns Lite.osax" in /System/Library/ScriptingAdditions
> - install the mac-emacs library in ~/Library/mac-emacs
> (it overwrites a previous installation)
> - create the symbolic link /machine-name --> /
> 
> Notes:
> - you can drag-and-drop files on the mac-emacs icon.
> - mac-emacs requires to have the Emacs program installed in /Applications.
> - mac-emacs requires a working installation of teTeX and ghostview (no X11).
> - mac-emacs can be copied anywhere.
> - mac-emacs loads automatically the file ~/.mac-emacs if it exists.
> You can study the file ~/Library/mac-emacs/site-lisp/loadup.el
> - To edit the LaTeX Command menu, look at
> ~/Library/mac-emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-site.el
> - You can customise also the dvipdf converter in
> ~/Library/mac-emacs/bin/dvipdf
> - To have full spelling checking capabilities, install "ispell" from
> fink. The latest precompiled binary is usually available with dselect.
> - If you have emacs for X11 installed, you can use it as follows:
> emacs -q -l ~/Library/mac-emacs/site-lisp/loadup.el
> 
> Documented limitations of http://www.porkrind.org/emacs/ :
> - This port of Emacs does not support 3 buttons mice.
> - Serious bug: if you start a subordinate process (for example a LaTeX
> compilation), the window for the output of that process is not
> always updated to the end. This means that the auctex interface does
> not always correctly capture the end of the process, even if it is
> finished.
> 
> To play with it, open a .tex file; from the command menu (or with C-c
> C-c) select "latex" and, if the compilation is successful, then "view".
> 
> COMMENTS and SUGGESTIONS WELCOME!
> 
> Enrico Franconi                     - franconi at cs.man.ac.uk
> University of Manchester            - http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~franconi/
> Department of Computer Science      - Phone: +44 (161) 275 6170
> Manchester M13 9PL, UK              - Fax:   +44 (161) 275 6204
> 
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