[OS X TeX] xdvi and/or acrobat reader with darwin ports emacs
Curtis Clifton
curt.clifton at mac.com
Sat Jan 22 14:55:13 CET 2005
On Jan 22, 2005, at 4:51 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Am 22.01.2005 um 05:59 schrieb David Arnold:
>
>> Now, I want to be able to view my tex file in xdvi via emacs. I'd
>> also like to set up inverse search, if possible, synching emacs and
>> xdvi. I'd also like to be able to open a pdf file via emacs in
>> acrobat reader 7.0.
>
> There es no free and native DVI viewer for Mac OS X available, Carbon
> or Aqua. MacDVIX from Tom Kiffe needs to be licensed (and has it's own
> Ghostscript that might need changes to its Fontmap to be able to use
> your own PostScript fonts), and TeXniscope from Massimiliano Gubinelli
> is free but first converts DVI to PDF, so it's rather a PDF viewer.
That's just semantics. Why does it matter what process TeXniscope uses
to display the dvi document? Shouldn't a hidden-from-the-user
conversion for display purposes only matter if that process is too
slow. And only the user can judge that. As far as I know TeXniscope
supports dvi specials for synchronizing, but I may be wrong as I'm a
pdflatex user. I'd appreciate enlightenment as this isn't the first
time I've seen TeXniscope derided as not being a DVI viewer, and that
doesn't make sense to me. (I'm a fan of TeXniscope for PDF viewing.
Massimiliano has done great work and a great service.)
> Xdvi needs X11 to display anything.
This is the interesting question. Can _Carbon_ Emacs work with xdvi?
Or does one have to use an X11 version of emacs?
Curt
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Curtis Clifton, PhD Candidate
Dept. of Computer Science, Iowa State University
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cclifton
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