MacOSX-TeX Digest #266 - 03/17/02

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MacOSX-TeX Digest #266 - Sunday, March 17, 2002

  Re: [OS X TeX] Slowdown  in mac-emacs and PATH variable
          by "Michel Bovani" <michel.bovani at wanadoo.fr>
  Re: [OS X TeX] mac-emacs and PATH variable
          by "Enrico Franconi" <franconi at cs.man.ac.uk>
  Unusual default margins
          by "Travis Beals" <trbeals at interchange.ubc.ca>
  Guinea Pigs needed for new (TeX/gs) installer engine
          by "Gerben Wierda" <sherlock at rna.nl>
  Re: [OS X TeX] Unusual default margins
          by "Richard Koch" <koch at darkwing.uoregon.edu>


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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Slowdown  in mac-emacs and PATH variable
From: "Michel Bovani" <michel.bovani at wanadoo.fr>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 12:28:41 +0100

Le 4/03/02 23:09, « Enrico Franconi » <franconi at cs.man.ac.uk> a écrit :

> 
> On the other topic of the PATH not being correctly visible from within
> emacs, we are investigating the fact. I call emacs with a "do shell
> script 'tcsh -c'" so in principle all the tcsh environment should be
> visible. For some strange reason, in this case the shell does not
> source the init files as it should do. We are trying to understand
> why. By now, the patch is to set the paths directly in
> /usr/share/init/tcsh/rc. This is an horrible solution and we prefer
> that nobody actually does it! Stay tuned.

I try to create a ~/Library/init/tcsh/ directory and tu put in it a file
named rc.mine and containing

setenv PATH "${PATH}:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current"


It seems to work.

On the other hand, typing <meta>! and pdflatex in the mini-buffer does not
work (zsh is called not tcsh). Have anybody a hint for this ?

-- 
Michel Bovani



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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] mac-emacs and PATH variable
From: "Enrico Franconi" <franconi at cs.man.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 12:01:31 +0000

On March 17, Michel Bovani writes:
> I try to create a ~/Library/init/tcsh/ directory and tu put in it a
> file named rc.mine and containing
> 
> setenv PATH "${PATH}:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current"
> 
> It seems to work.

This is the expected behaviour predicted by the Apple documentation
(of course you should also set the path for your gs). Well, it is not
really documented, you have to infer it by looking at the
files... However, on some configuration (hopefully rare) this does not
work, and you need to put the paths in the main rc file. Still don't
understand which is the rationale behind.

> On the other hand, typing <meta>! and pdflatex in the mini-buffer
> does not work (zsh is called not tcsh). Have anybody a hint for
> this ?

This somehow expected: in fact, from the auctex that is installed with
my distribution of mac-emacs the commands are always invoked from a
tcsh shell, while in plain mac-emacs NOT (it uses zsh, who knows
why...). In the auctex menu you do have pdflatex, and moreover you can
customise it the way you want; those commands are always launched
through tcsh. I'm setting up a number of common cases that should suit
most users (from the various religions...).

Hope thios helps
cheers
-- e.

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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Subject: Unusual default margins
From: "Travis Beals" <trbeals at interchange.ubc.ca>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 13:31:34 -0800

By default, TeXShop is producing output with strange margins.  The top 
margin looks to be at least an inch and a half, while the bottom margin 
is maybe half an inch.  When I installed TeXShop, I selected US 
Letter-size paper.  I'm running TeXShop 1.17, and a fairly recent tetex 
(can't remember the exact version), and I've been having this problem 
for several versions now.

I think there are some commands for specifying PDF margins that I could 
add to each document, but I'd rather change the default behaviour than 
have to edit every LaTeX document I receive.  Any words of wisdom?

Thanks!

-Travis


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Subject: Guinea Pigs needed for new (TeX/gs) installer engine
From: "Gerben Wierda" <sherlock at rna.nl>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 23:10:06 +0100

I need a few Guinea Pigs (3-4) to test my new installer mechanism for 
TeX. There will be an installer for TeX Live binaries, teTeX texmf tree, 
GhostScript 6.01 and GhostScript 7.00. The download itself is 
approximately 1MB, as this particular installer is configured to 
download the actual files from the net only when you actually do run the 
installer.

G


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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Unusual default margins
From: "Richard Koch" <koch at darkwing.uoregon.edu>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:10:12 -0800

Travis,

Please first try things from the command line to see if the fault
is teTeX or TeXShop. What happens when you typeset
from Terminal and print with dvips? What is you create a pdf
from Terminal with pdflatex and load into Preview and print?

Dick
koch at math.uoregon.edu


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