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MacOSX-TeX Digest #276 - Wednesday, March 27, 2002
Re: synchronize laptop and desktop
by "Philip Neukom" <pneukom at ProfitAnalytics.com>
Two questions (documentation-related)
by "Bruno Voisin" <Bruno.Voisin at hmg.inpg.fr>
Re: [OS X TeX] Request for front end suppliers who rely on my TeXdistribu
by "bob desinger" <bdesinger at mac.com>
Re: [OS X TeX] TexMacs
by "Martin Costabel" <costabel at wanadoo.fr>
OzTeX 5.0a and xypic
by <get86 at mac.com>
Re: [OS X TeX] OzTeX 5.0a and xypic
by "Michael Murray" <mmurray at maths.adelaide.edu.au>
Re: [OS X TeX] OzTeX 5.0a and xypic
by <get86 at mac.com>
Re: [OS X TeX] OzTeX 5.0a and xypic
by "Michael Murray" <mmurray at maths.adelaide.edu.au>
Re: [OS X TeX] OzTeX 5.0a and xypic
by <get86 at mac.com>
Re: [OS X TeX] Fonts included with Textures?
by "Rick Zaccone" <zaccone at bucknell.edu>
Re: [OS X TeX] Fonts included with Textures?
by "Bruno Voisin" <Bruno.Voisin at hmg.inpg.fr>
Re: [OS X TeX] Two questions (documentation-related)
by "Marie Nielse" <n.marie at noos.fr>
Re: [OS X TeX] Two questions (documentation-related)
by "J.Huelsmann" <J.Huelsmann at tu-bs.de>
Re: [OS X TeX] OzTeX 5.0a and xypic
by "Michael Murray" <mmurray at maths.adelaide.edu.au>
Re: [OS X TeX] Fonts included with Textures?
by "Adrian Heathcote" <adrian.heathcote at philosophy.usyd.edu.au>
Re: [OS X TeX] Two questions (documentation-related)
by "Adrian Heathcote" <adrian.heathcote at philosophy.usyd.edu.au>
Re: [OS X TeX] synchronize laptop and desktop
by "Gerben Wierda" <sherlock at rna.nl>
Re: [OS X TeX] Request for front end suppliers who rely on my TeXdistribu
by "Arun Mangalam" <arun_mangalam at mac.com>
Re: [OS X TeX] Two questions (documentation-related)
by "Gerben Wierda" <sherlock at rna.nl>
Re: [OS X TeX] Two questions (documentation-related)
by "Arun Mangalam" <arun_mangalam at mac.com>
Re: [OS X TeX] Two questions (documentation-related)
by "Bruno Voisin" <Bruno.Voisin at hmg.inpg.fr>
Re: [OS X TeX] Two questions (documentation-related)
by "Adrian Heathcote" <adrian.heathcote at philosophy.usyd.edu.au>
illustrator and LaTeX?
by "Oliver Hardt" <hardt at u.arizona.edu>
Re: [OS X TeX] Fonts included with Textures?
by "Gary L. Gray" <gray at engr.psu.edu>
Re: [OS X TeX] illustrator and LaTeX?
by "William Adams" <wadams at atlis.com>
Re: [OS X TeX] Two questions (documentation-related)
by "Michael Hanson" <mshanson at wesleyan.edu>
Re: [OS X TeX] Two questions (documentation-related)
by "Martin Stokhof" <stokhof at hum.uva.nl>
Re: [OS X TeX] Two questions (documentation-related)
by "Enrico Franconi" <franconi at cs.man.ac.uk>
Re: [OS X TeX] Fonts included with Textures?
by "Ross Moore" <ross at ics.mq.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: synchronize laptop and desktop
From: "Philip Neukom" <pneukom at ProfitAnalytics.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 21:42:36 -0500
I think you should have a look at psync. It is a Perl script that works
like rsync but is capable of handling hfs+ files. It is a command line
utility that so easy to use that even I have become proficient.
Each day I psync various directories. You can also psync the complete drive
to create a bootable image on another disk or removable media.
You find psync at http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=MacOSX-File
File to download is MacOSX-File-0.64.tar.gz This is a collection of file
copy/sync/attribute scripts for OSX. It requires compiling, but the
instructions were easy enough for me to follow.
There is also rsyncX which is an OSX version of rsync. I believe it has a
GUI now. It is located at: http://www.macosxlabs.org/rsyncx/rsyncx.html
I haven't tried this yet since I was happy with psync.
There is also CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner). It is a GUI disk cloning program.
It uses ditto under the hood as far as I can tell. CCC was set up as a
backup program but I used it to sync directories. Since finding psync, I
haven't used it much. http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
Hope this is helpful.
Philip
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> Subject: synchronize laptop and desktop
> From: "Donal Day" <dbd at virginia.edu>
> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 11:07:39 -0500
>
> I have TeXShop, tetex, etc intalled on my desktop. Is there a mechanism
> (script) whereby I can create the same installation on my laptop without
> repeating the steps of downloading, installing, etc?
>
> Is there a Unix tools that can make the disks on both machines
> identical?
>
> Donal Day
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Subject: Two questions (documentation-related)
From: "Bruno Voisin" <Bruno.Voisin at hmg.inpg.fr>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 08:37:42 +0100
- Does anybody know where in teTeX the documentation for ConTeXt
resides? teTeX's HTML documentation
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/doc/index.html has an hyperlink to
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/doc/context/base/ms-cb-en.pdf,
unfortunately this file doesn't exist.
- Does anybody know how to search for a file in teTeX's directory
/usr/local/teTeX. Everytime I try to use Sherlock on this directory, it
finds nothing, even when I search for a file which is actually there. I
guess this has something to do with access authorizations (I am
administrator on my G4), since Sherlock says the folder /usr/local/teTeX
cannot be indexed.
Any help appreciated,
Bruno Voisin
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Request for front end suppliers who rely on my TeXdistribution (or not)
From: "bob desinger" <bdesinger at mac.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 23:57:08 -0800
On Tuesday, March 26, 2002, at 10:59 AM, Joseph C. Slater wrote:
> I'm playing around with a lot of editors. I don't know what I like
> best. There are so many good options, it's almost a problem!
i'm a recent convert to vim on windows & linux & freebsd on intel. i'm
looking forward to using it on the mac. vim is easier to customize than
emacs! (i regularly switch back and forth between vi and emacs. yeah,
i know, i'm sick in the head.)
speaking of which, i'd love to use emacs on my mac, but the location of
the caps lock key is an emacs killer. are there any key-remapping
programs for aqua (not X11) so i can turn caps lock into another ctrl
key?
:: bd
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TexMacs
From: "Martin Costabel" <costabel at wanadoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:06:42 +0100
Aaron Seitz wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was just wondering if anyone has experience with TexMacs. Also does
> anyone know of efforts to build it on the Mac?
I hav no experience with it, but I succeeded to compile and run it under
Mac OSX wtih XFree86. My compiling experience is submitted in the form
of a Fink package to the fink package submit tracker at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?group_id=17203&atid=414256
--
Martin
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Subject: OzTeX 5.0a and xypic
From: <get86 at mac.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 03:51:15 -0500
From the OzTeX 5.0a Readme (thanks Andrew):
- If OzTeX is running on OS X then it can call arbitrary Unix commands
and display the results in the OzTeX window. If you have teTeX and
Ghostscript installed then you can run lots of useful programs not
provided in OzTeX (pdftex, ps2pdf, etc). -
Is 'xypic' one of those Unix programs referred to above?
Is it included with OzTeX 5.0a? If so, how do i invoke it?
If not, how do i get and install it?
(Yes, I know next to nothing about it! So, if this post is senseless,
please "clue me in". 8)
-TR
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] OzTeX 5.0a and xypic
From: "Michael Murray" <mmurray at maths.adelaide.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 19:45:24 +1030
>From the OzTeX 5.0a Readme (thanks Andrew):
>
>- If OzTeX is running on OS X then it can call arbitrary Unix commands
> and display the results in the OzTeX window. If you have teTeX and
> Ghostscript installed then you can run lots of useful programs not
> provided in OzTeX (pdftex, ps2pdf, etc). -
>
>Is 'xypic' one of those Unix programs referred to above?
>Is it included with OzTeX 5.0a? If so, how do i invoke it?
>If not, how do i get and install it?
>
>(Yes, I know next to nothing about it! So, if this post is
>senseless, please "clue me in". 8)
>
>-TR
>
Hi
xypic is more of a macro package except that it comes with a special
set of fonts for the arrows and stuff.
Michael
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] OzTeX 5.0a and xypic
From: <get86 at mac.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 04:27:38 -0500
On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 04:15 AM, Michael Murray wrote:
>> From the OzTeX 5.0a Readme (thanks Andrew):
>>
>> - If OzTeX is running on OS X then it can call arbitrary Unix commands
>> and display the results in the OzTeX window. If you have teTeX and
>> Ghostscript installed then you can run lots of useful programs not
>> provided in OzTeX (pdftex, ps2pdf, etc). -
>>
>> Is 'xypic' one of those Unix programs referred to above?
>> Is it included with OzTeX 5.0a? If so, how do i invoke it?
>> If not, how do i get and install it?
>>
>> (Yes, I know next to nothing about it! So, if this post is senseless,
>> please "clue me in". 8)
>>
>> -TR
>>
>
> Hi
>
> xypic is more of a macro package except that it comes with a special
> set of fonts for the arrows and stuff.
>
> Michael
Thanks, I guess I should of asked -what do I need to do to get it
working with OzTeX 5.0a? (or, I know little more than I did :(
-TR
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] OzTeX 5.0a and xypic
From: "Michael Murray" <mmurray at maths.adelaide.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 20:17:57 +1030
>>
>
>Thanks, I guess I should of asked -what do I need to do to get it
>working with OzTeX 5.0a? (or, I know little more than I did :(
>
>-TR
>
Sorry - that was a bit brief :-)
You need to download the various files from CTAN.
They are in /tex-archive/macros/generic/diagrams/xypic
or ftp://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/generic/diagrams/xypic/
The XY-pic homepage is at
http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~krisrose/Xy-pic.html
If you want to produce pdf you will need postscript xypic fonts
which are available but I have forgotten where from ! I also recall
having problems with them and Tom Kacvinsky fixing them for me.
If you have using Mac OS 9 and get freezes try the fonts at
ftp://mmurray:@maths.adelaide.edu.au//archive/public/pure/mmurray/XY.sit
I think these are the ones Tom fixed up. Sorry to sound so vague
I haven't thought about this stuff for awhile.
If you have teTeX installed xy-pic comes with it and teTeX also
has the appropriate .pfb xypic ps fonts.
Michael
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] OzTeX 5.0a and xypic
From: <get86 at mac.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 05:01:20 -0500
On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 04:47 AM, Michael Murray wrote:
> If you have teTeX installed xy-pic comes with it and teTeX also
> has the appropriate .pfb xypic ps fonts.
Ah-ha. (newbie question): teTeX -which I have installed on OSX many
times... does not install on OS9, correct?
Also, didn't/doesn't xy-pic come with OzTeX 4? If you happen to know....
I *thought* Andrew Trevorrow told me it did... so, I'm thinking/guessing
it will be included on his new CD but not in the downloaded version(?).
(I better copy this to the list... so I don't misspeak or misunderstand,
i.e., so I can get corrected!)
-TR
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Fonts included with Textures?
From: "Rick Zaccone" <zaccone at bucknell.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 05:15:05 -0500 (EST)
>Here are some details on the installation of the Lucida Bright family (I
>assume that is what you are referring to -- if not, I apologize):
I would like to see similar instructions for installing Mathtime from
Blue Sky. Does anyone have instructions?
Rick
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Fonts included with Textures?
From: "Bruno Voisin" <Bruno.Voisin at hmg.inpg.fr>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:39:40 +0100
Le mercredi 27 mars 2002, à 11:15 AM, Rick Zaccone a écrit :
>> Here are some details on the installation of the Lucida Bright
>> family (I
>> assume that is what you are referring to -- if not, I apologize):
>
> I would like to see similar instructions for installing Mathtime from
> Blue Sky. Does anyone have instructions?
They are essentially similar to Gary Gray's instructions for Lucida,
with one difficulty though: teTeX is set for MathTime Complete fonts (=
MathTime 1.1 + MathTime Plus), whereas Blue Sky sells only MathTime 1.1.
So you must either configure teTeX for using MathTime 1.1, or purchase
the missing MathTime Plus fonts from Y&Y.
Referring to Gary Gray's instructions:
[1] The creation of .pfb fonts from the MathTime fonts MTEX, MTSY and
RMTMI works exactly as for Lucida, using Tom Kiffe's CMacTeX.
[2] No renaming necessary, maybe just transforming uppercase into
lowercase. You will get:
mtex.pfb
mtsy.pfb
rmtmi.pfb
[3] Move them to ~/Library/texmf/fonts/type1/yandy/mathtime
Then comes the tricky bit. Download the mathtime distribution from CTAN,
for example:
<ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-
archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/psnfssx/mathtime/>
Then open mathtime.ins and uncomment the line:
%\def\mtplus{}
Then run LaTeX on mathtime.ins, it will recreate a few files. Move all
.fd and .sty files to ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/mathtime.
You're done! The documentation is in mathtime.txt and mathtime.dtx,
which you may keep and move to ~/Library/texmf/doc/latex/mathtime if
desired.
Hope this works,
Bruno Voisin
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Two questions (documentation-related)
From: "Marie Nielse" <n.marie at noos.fr>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:17:47 +0100
Le mercredi 27 mars 2002, à 08:37 AM, Bruno Voisin a écrit :
> - Does anybody know where in teTeX the documentation for ConTeXt
> resides? teTeX's HTML documentation
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/doc/index.html has an hyperlink to
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/doc/context/base/ms-cb-en.pdf,
> unfortunately this file doesn't exist.
>
> - Does anybody know how to search for a file in teTeX's directory
> /usr/local/teTeX. Everytime I try to use Sherlock on this directory, it
> finds nothing, even when I search for a file which is actually there. I
> guess this has something to do with access authorizations (I am
> administrator on my G4), since Sherlock says the folder
> /usr/local/teTeX cannot be indexed.
>
> Any help appreciated,
>
> Bruno Voisin
>
>
je suis très heureuse de pouvoir vous aider : j'ai eu le même problème
que vous et pour la recherche j'ai trouvé
Locator http://www.sebastian-krauss.de/locator/
si besoin j'ai le fichier pour la traduction française
Marie Nielse
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Two questions (documentation-related)
From: "J.Huelsmann" <J.Huelsmann at tu-bs.de>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:11:40 +0100
I don´t know where the ConTeXt documentation is (ctan maybe?) but to
find files in your /usr/local/teTeX/ you can use find:
in Terminal type
find /usr/local/teTeX/ -name '*PutWordToFindHere*'
then type
open
and copy & paste the path you want.
--Jan--
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] OzTeX 5.0a and xypic
From: "Michael Murray" <mmurray at maths.adelaide.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 21:48:28 +1030
>On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 04:47 AM, Michael Murray wrote:
>
>>If you have teTeX installed xy-pic comes with it and teTeX also
>>has the appropriate .pfb xypic ps fonts.
>
>Ah-ha. (newbie question): teTeX -which I have installed on OSX many
>times... does not install on OS9, correct?
No.
>
>Also, didn't/doesn't xy-pic come with OzTeX 4? If you happen to know....
>I *thought* Andrew Trevorrow told me it did... so, I'm
>thinking/guessing it will be included on his new CD but not in the
>downloaded version(?).
>(I better copy this to the list... so I don't misspeak or
>misunderstand, i.e., so I can get corrected!)
>
>-TR
>
I think it must be the CD. If I look at my OzTeX 4.1 folder I have xy-pic
installed in the MyTeX folder which is where I put all the things I installed
myself so it wasn't part of the downloaded release.
I have used it with OzTeX though and it worked fine if you take
into account my earlier remarks about the postscript fonts.
Michael
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_________________________________________________________
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Department of Pure Mathematics Fax: 61+ 8 8303
3696
University of Adelaide Phone: 61+ 8 8303 4174
Australia 5005 Email: mmurray at maths.adelaide.edu.au
Home Page: http://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/pure/mmurray
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_________________________________________________________
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Fonts included with Textures?
From: "Adrian Heathcote" <adrian.heathcote at philosophy.usyd.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:25:14 +1100
>
Hi All
I've just done a successful install of the Lucida fonts, purchased from
Y&Y, and following Gary Gray's instructions. It turns out that it is not
necessary to do any transforming of uppercase to lowercase. They work
either way.
>
> [2] No renaming necessary, maybe just transforming uppercase into
> lowercase. You will get:
>
> mtex.pfb
> mtsy.pfb
> rmtmi.pfb
>
The next question though is whether it is really necessary to convert
.pfa files to .pfb files since the latter are just packed versions of
the former and they need to be unpacked anyway every time they are sent
to the printer. (If .pfb files are really needed them it seems like a
mistake.)
Adrian Heathcote
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Two questions (documentation-related)
From: "Adrian Heathcote" <adrian.heathcote at philosophy.usyd.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:42:33 +1100
Hi
The big Context manual---the only one that really enables you to get a
grip on the program---which is non-trivial---is here
http://www.ntg.nl/context/document.htm
Adrian Heathcote
On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 10:11 PM, J.Huelsmann wrote:
> I don´t know where the ConTeXt documentation is (ctan maybe?) but to
> find files in your /usr/local/teTeX/ you can use find:
> in Terminal type
> find /usr/local/teTeX/ -name '*PutWordToFindHere*'
> then type
> open
> and copy & paste the path you want.
>
> --Jan--
>
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] synchronize laptop and desktop
From: "Gerben Wierda" <sherlock at rna.nl>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:38:01 +0100
The best tool for this is rsync which works fine if you have ssh access
on the receiving system. However, most tools, like rsync, are unix-tools
and will not copy resource forks. Neither my TeX/ghostscript
distribution nor many pure Mac OS X applications use resource forks.
Otherwise, drag/drop on a NFS-mounted volume (or ditto) will work.
G
On Tuesday, March 26, 2002, at 05:07 , Donal Day wrote:
> I have TeXShop, tetex, etc intalled on my desktop. Is there a
> mechanism (script) whereby I can create the same installation on my
> laptop without repeating the steps of downloading, installing, etc?
>
> Is there a Unix tools that can make the disks on both machines
> identical?
>
> Donal Day
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Request for front end suppliers who rely on my TeXdistribution (or not)
From: "Arun Mangalam" <arun_mangalam at mac.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 08:49:13 -0500
Search VersionTracker for the keyboard mapper [especially useful
PowrBook users]. I remember there were a couple, even with source code.
- Arun
On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 02:57 AM, bob desinger wrote:
> speaking of which, i'd love to use emacs on my mac, but the location of
> the caps lock key is an emacs killer. are there any key-remapping
> programs for aqua (not X11) so i can turn caps lock into another ctrl
> key?
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Two questions (documentation-related)
From: "Gerben Wierda" <sherlock at rna.nl>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:55:41 +0100
On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 08:37 , Bruno Voisin wrote:
> - Does anybody know how to search for a file in teTeX's directory
> /usr/local/teTeX. Everytime I try to use Sherlock on this directory, it
> finds nothing, even when I search for a file which is actually there. I
> guess this has something to do with access authorizations (I am
> administrator on my G4), since Sherlock says the folder
> /usr/local/teTeX cannot be indexed.
On the command line:
kpsewhich
it is not entirely trivial, but mostly
kpsewhich filename
will work (especially for .tex and .sty files and the like). However,
sometimes you need to tell it what kind of special file you are looking
for:
[dumbledore:local/src/www.rna.nl] root# kpsewhich language.dat
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/generic/config/language.dat
[dumbledore:local/src/www.rna.nl] root# kpsewhich config.ps
[dumbledore:local/src/www.rna.nl] root# kpsewhich -format='dvips config'
config.ps
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/dvips/config/config.ps
As an added bonus, kpsewhich not only tells you where the file is, but
if there are multiple of the same name, it will tell you which one will
be used by TeX...
G
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Two questions (documentation-related)
From: "Arun Mangalam" <arun_mangalam at mac.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:08:25 -0500
On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 02:37 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
> - Does anybody know where in teTeX the documentation for ConTeXt
> resides? teTeX's HTML documentation
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/doc/index.html has an hyperlink to
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/doc/context/base/ms-cb-en.pdf,
> unfortunately this file doesn't exist.
I couldn't find the documentation, so I went to their website...
http://www.pragma-ade.nl
Although, if you know TeX well enough you could look at their code
[/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/*] which has snippets of
documentation. :)
> - Does anybody know how to search for a file in teTeX's directory
> /usr/local/teTeX. Everytime I try to use Sherlock on this directory, it
> finds nothing, even when I search for a file which is actually there. I
> guess this has something to do with access authorizations (I am
> administrator on my G4), since Sherlock says the folder
> /usr/local/teTeX cannot be indexed.
As someone mentioned, use either XLocate in the GUI environment or run
sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
to update the database, and from then on use "locate" to find any file.
i.e. running "locate meta-fig" on my machine returns
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/meta-fig.tex
This file represents ConTeXt stand-alone TeX and MetaPost capabilities.
You can also use grep to look within the entire directory for certain
TeX commands, such as
grep startTEXpage *
which returns, when you are inside the above "base" directory:
meta-fig.tex:\def\startTEXpage%
- Arun
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Two questions (documentation-related)
From: "Bruno Voisin" <Bruno.Voisin at hmg.inpg.fr>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 15:36:21 +0100
Thanks for all your answers.
So now, together with Gerben's kpsewhich, I've got a UNIX utility,
locate, and two GUIs for it, Locator @ <http://www.sebastian-
krauss.de/locator> and XLocate @
<http://homepage.mac.com/~incomingsw/products/xlocate.html>. Tough
choice! The GUI for the first seems somehow more user-friendly, but the
second has got a HOBBES ICON. How could I resist?
Bruno Voisin
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Two questions (documentation-related)
From: "Adrian Heathcote" <adrian.heathcote at philosophy.usyd.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 01:42:34 +1100
> but the second has got a HOBBES ICON. How could I resist?
Are these collectable?
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Subject: illustrator and LaTeX?
From: "Oliver Hardt" <hardt at u.arizona.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 08:41:49 -0700
i am working on a poster for a psychological conference. the whole
layout is done with illustrator, but i thought that it might be nice
to do the narratives, formulas, tables with LaTeX. i would like to
use the computer modern fonts for that.
the poster will be 72 inches wide and 48 inches high (around
180cm wide and 120cm high). the headlines are 90pt helvetica. my
plan is to pdflatex my stuff and then import the pdf into illustrator
and put it where i want it. however, i have the impression that
those pdfs don't contain 'text' they rather contain an image of the
text (since i cannot edit the text in acrobat reader).
can i just scale the pdf or latex output to the desirable
size without any quality loss? what do i need to do in order to
accomplish that? btw: if i would use a font in illustrator, the
narrative would be around 40 points. thanks for your help!
olli.
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Fonts included with Textures?
From: "Gary L. Gray" <gray at engr.psu.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:17:32 -0500
On 3/27/02 6:25 AM, "Adrian Heathcote"
<adrian.heathcote at philosophy.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
> I've just done a successful install of the Lucida fonts, purchased from
> Y&Y, and following Gary Gray's instructions. It turns out that it is not
> necessary to do any transforming of uppercase to lowercase. They work
> either way.
That doesn't surprise me, but it's good to know.
>> [2] No renaming necessary, maybe just transforming uppercase into
>> lowercase. You will get:
>>
>> mtex.pfb
>> mtsy.pfb
>> rmtmi.pfb
>>
>
> The next question though is whether it is really necessary to convert
> .pfa files to .pfb files since the latter are just packed versions of
> the former and they need to be unpacked anyway every time they are sent
> to the printer. (If .pfb files are really needed them it seems like a
> mistake.)
I don't think you do need to convert the .pfa files to .pfb files. I used
.pfb files for no reason whatsoever. :-)
Best regards,
-- Gary
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] illustrator and LaTeX?
From: "William Adams" <wadams at atlis.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:38:05 -0500
olli said:
>i am working on a poster for a psychological conference. the whole
>layout is done with illustrator, but i thought that it might be nice
>to do the narratives, formulas, tables with LaTeX. i would like to
>use the computer modern fonts for that.
Gary Gray's site has links to a set of fonts which're intended to allow
Illustrator to make use of /edit files created with (La)TeX. An
alternative is to use Textures and its export to .eps facility which
works around Illustrator's limitations in this.
There's been a fair bit of discussion about this in the past---look for
a post from Prof. Jaques Distler with all the gory details.
> the poster will be 72 inches wide and 48 inches high (around
>180cm wide and 120cm high). the headlines are 90pt helvetica. my
>plan is to pdflatex my stuff and then import the pdf into illustrator
>and put it where i want it. however, i have the impression that
>those pdfs don't contain 'text' they rather contain an image of the
>text (since i cannot edit the text in acrobat reader).
Use Acrobat's File | Document Info | Fonts command to check if you're
getting Type 1 fonts.
> can i just scale the pdf or latex output to the desirable
>size without any quality loss?
Yes.
>what do i need to do in order to
>accomplish that?
Get Type 1 fonts into the .pdf or .eps
William
--
William Adams, publishing specialist
ATLIS Graphics & Design / 717-731-6707 voice / 717-731-6708 fax
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
http://www.atlis.com
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Two questions (documentation-related)
From: "Michael Hanson" <mshanson at wesleyan.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:31:48 -0500
On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 09:36 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
> So now, together with Gerben's kpsewhich, I've got a UNIX utility,
> locate, and two GUIs for it, Locator @ <http://www.sebastian-
> krauss.de/locator> and XLocate @
> <http://homepage.mac.com/~incomingsw/products/xlocate.html>. Tough
> choice! The GUI for the first seems somehow more user-friendly, but the
> second has got a HOBBES ICON. How could I resist?
I have found Locator to be an excellent utility (I use it much more
often than Sherlock) that is updated regularly. Very nice
(customizable) interface and features, such as case-insensitive
searches. Have not used XLocate. However, if it's Hobbes (as in Calvin
and Hobbes) icons you are after, try here:
<http://xicons.macnn.com/search.php?form_type=search&keywords=hobbes&author=
>
You could have your Hobbes and GUI, too! (Sorry....)
========================================================================
Michael S. Hanson <http://mshanson.web.wesleyan.edu/>
Department of Economics mshanson at wesleyan.edu
Wesleyan University
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Two questions (documentation-related)
From: "Martin Stokhof" <stokhof at hum.uva.nl>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:59:41 +0100
At 14:31 -0500 on 27/03/02, Michael Hanson wrote:
> I have found Locator to be an excellent utility (I use it
>much more often than Sherlock) that is updated regularly.
I realize this is getting more and more off-topic, but this is
something that puzzles me and that I hope someone might clear up.
I use Locator, which I agree is excellent, superior to Sherlock as
far as searching the file system is concerned. I also use MacJanitor
on my PowerBook that isn't up 24/7. One of the tasks that's in
MacJanitor' weekly script is to update the locate database. What
happens is that after MacJanitor has done that, Locator can't find
files anymore and needs to rebuild the database (which, as Locator
warns, indeed takes quite some time). Is this a bug in MacJanitor?
Locator?
Martin Stokhof
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Two questions (documentation-related)
From: "Enrico Franconi" <franconi at cs.man.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 23:42:14 +0000
On March 27, Martin Stokhof writes:
> on my PowerBook that isn't up 24/7. One of the tasks that's in
> MacJanitor' weekly script is to update the locate database. What
> happens is that after MacJanitor has done that, Locator can't find
> files anymore and needs to rebuild the database (which, as Locator
> warns, indeed takes quite some time). Is this a bug in MacJanitor?
> Locator?
probably you have the fink new version of locate installed in /sw
(rather than in /usr) which uses a different database. MacJanitor uses
/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
To check which locate are you using, do a
which locate
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: Re: [OS X TeX] Fonts included with Textures?
From: "Ross Moore" <ross at ics.mq.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:40:51 +1100 (EST)
> >
> Hi All
>
> I've just done a successful install of the Lucida fonts, purchased from
> Y&Y, and following Gary Gray's instructions. It turns out that it is not
> necessary to do any transforming of uppercase to lowercase. They work
> either way.
> >
> > [2] No renaming necessary, maybe just transforming uppercase into
> > lowercase. You will get:
> >
> > mtex.pfb
> > mtsy.pfb
> > rmtmi.pfb
> >
>
> The next question though is whether it is really necessary to convert
> .pfa files to .pfb files since the latter are just packed versions of
> the former and they need to be unpacked anyway every time they are sent
> to the printer. (If .pfb files are really needed them it seems like a
> mistake.)
No. A binary format is necessarily smaller in size than an ascii format,
since all the bits are significant, whereas this is not so for ascii letters.
Thus transmission times to the printer are generally reduced.
Why do you think that the .pfb gets converted to .pfa before sending ?
Which print-spoolers do that, and why ?
It certainly isn't necessary, since a PostScript interpreter can read
the binary form directly into its internal format.
Similar it reads the (longer) ascii form directly into internals.
There is no a priori reason why any ascii/binary conversion between
the two forms needs to take place.
Indeed, the binary form is more likely to be closer to the internal format
than is the ascii format.
Of course the Mac [print-manager may be peculiar.
Cheers,
Ross
> Adrian Heathcote
>
>
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