[OS X TeX] Screen fonts in X11 using i-Installer tetex

[Axel E.Retif]

On Nov 23, 2004, at 7:22 PM, Frederick Hoyt wrote:

> I am using Gerben Wierda's tetex installation with X11 by way of the 
> Fink system-tetex placeholder. I notice that when I generate documents 
> this way, the quality of the screen fonts in gv is substantially worse 
> than what I see if I use the Fink tetex installation.

But if you distill the .ps file opening it with Preview or with Acrobat 
Distiller you'll see that everything is OK.

> Can anyone suggest why this might be, and what I might do about it?

I never use GV to preview. I work with .dvi files in the preparation 
stages, and the final runs with TeXShop to produce PDF files.

> Disk space is not an issue, so I could have both the Fink and 
> i-Installer tetex installations, but it does offend my Yankee 
> sensibilities to have two installations when one will do.

You really, really should not. The Fink line `` . /sw/bin/init.sh '' in 
your .profile or .bash_profile prepends Fink's path (try, for example, 
`` which awk '' or even `` which which '' and you'll see that you are 
using Fink's awk (gawk) and which.

So even if you put

/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current

in the Engine section of TeXShop preferences, for example, which 
texmf.cnf would be used?, which kpsea?, etc.


> Alternatively, is it possible to knit the Fink and i-Installer tetex 
> installations together through artful use of symlinks?

That's system-tetex. For example,

Ada:~ axretif$ ls -alF /sw/texmf.cnf
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin  26 20 Aug 23:31 /sw/texmf.cnf@ -> 
/usr/local/teTeX/texmf.cnf
Ada:~ axretif$ ls -alF /sw/bin/dvipdf
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin  21 31 Jul 17:29 /sw/bin/dvipdf@ -> 
/usr/local/bin/dvipdf

Best regards,

Axel

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