[OS X TeX] Gems from Japan: RPN2TeX and AutoTeX

[MAEDA Wataru]

On 2004/05/18, at 4:34 AM, Michael Hoppe wrote:

>>  I just looked my TeXShop Preferences and copied my path for pdfTeX:
>>
>>  /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current
>
> In fact, that is a link to 
> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin6.8/.  And for me it doesn't 
> matter which path I pass to RPN2TeX, it'll always happen the same, 
> namely -- according to console log, after the Preview-button is 
> invoked:
>
> %---------------  excerpt from console.log
> This is e-TeXk, Version 3.141592-2.1 (Web2C 7.5.2)
>  %&-line parsing enabled.
>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/web2c/cp8bit.tcx)
> entering extended mode
> (./temp.tex
> LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
> Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, 
> ngerman, n
> ohyphenation, loaded.
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) 
> (./temp.aux)
> [1] (./temp.aux) )
> Output written on temp.dvi (1 page, 256 bytes).
> Transcript written on temp.log.
> This is dvips(k) 5.94a Copyright 2003 Radical Eye Software 
> (www.radicaleye.com)
> ' TeX output 2004.05.17:1044' -> temp.ps
> (-> temp.001) 
> <tex.pro><alt-rule.pro><texc.pro><f7b6d320.enc><texps.pro>
> <cmr7.pfb><cmr10.pfb>[1]
> %---------------------- end excerpt ----------------
>
> So temp.dvi is created from temp.tex and passed to dvips, which 
> produced temp.ps.  But RPN2TeX doesn't show any preview, but only the 
> Spinning Pizza.  What am I doing wrong?  I suspect some privileges 
> aren't set correctly.
>

Sorry for inconvenience.
um, I can't give you an answer now, but I'd like to ask some questions.
1. A version of MacOS X on your mac
2. Execute "ls -l /tmp/RPN2TeX(process id)" in the terminal. (process 
id) changes with circumstances. What output did you get? You can hide 
the owner or group names like user_name or group_name, if you want.

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