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

[Michael Hoppe]

>  Sorry for inconvenience.

I'm pleased about you response, anyway.

>  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

10.3.3 with all updates.

>  2. Execute "ls -l /tmp/RPN2TeX(process id)" in the terminal. 
> (process id) changes with circumstances. What output did you get?

-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

But an ls -l in /tmp yields


drwxr-xr-x  9 michaelh  wheel   306 16 May 17:33 RPN2TeX22210
drwxr-xr-x  8 michaelh  wheel   272 16 May 17:35 RPN2TeX22326
drwxr-xr-x  8 michaelh  wheel   272 17 May 10:29 RPN2TeX25881
drwxr-xr-x  9 michaelh  wheel   306 17 May 10:44 RPN2TeX25911
drwxr-xr-x  3 michaelh  wheel   102 17 May 10:45 RPN2TeX25993
drwxr-xr-x  3 michaelh  wheel   102 17 May 10:46 RPN2TeX25995
drwxr-xr-x  8 michaelh  wheel   272 17 May 10:46 RPN2TeX25999
drwxr-xr-x  8 michaelh  wheel   272 17 May 10:47 RPN2TeX26005
drwxr-xr-x  8 michaelh  wheel   272 17 May 15:47 RPN2TeX27002
drwxr-xr-x  8 michaelh  wheel   272 17 May 15:48 RPN2TeX27018
drwxr-xr-x  8 michaelh  wheel   272 17 May 15:49 RPN2TeX27031
drwxr-xr-x  3 michaelh  wheel   102 17 May 15:50 RPN2TeX27036
drwxr-xr-x  8 michaelh  wheel   272 17 May 21:33 RPN2TeX28254
drwxr-xr-x  3 michaelh  wheel   102 17 May 21:35 RPN2TeX28296
drwxr-xr-x  8 michaelh  wheel   272 17 May 21:37 RPN2TeX28308
drwxr-xr-x  3 michaelh  wheel   102 18 May 09:58 RPN2TeX741

The content of each directory looks like

-rw-r--r--  1 michaelh  wheel  18442 17 May 21:37 temp.001
-rw-r--r--  1 michaelh  wheel      8 17 May 21:37 temp.aux
-rw-r--r--  1 michaelh  wheel    256 17 May 21:37 temp.dvi
-rw-r--r--  1 michaelh  wheel    187 17 May 21:37 temp.html
-rw-r--r--  1 michaelh  wheel   2251 17 May 21:37 temp.log
-rw-r--r--  1 michaelh  wheel     97 17 May 21:37 temp.tex


>   You can hide the owner or group names like user_name or 
> group_name, if you want.

I don't care.

>  I forgot one more question,
>  3. Execute "cd /tmp/RPN2TeX(process id)", "mv temp.001 
> temp.001.eps", "open ." and drag >temp.001.eps into Preview.app. 
> Did you get temp.001.pdf?

Bingo!  Spinning Pizza again!  No, Preview.app doesn't produce the 
desired pdf-file.  For me, it's not the first time that Preview.app 
can't convert ps to pdf.

     Is there any cure for Preview.app?

Michael

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