[OS X TeX] Re: [OS X TeX]

[Chetan Nayak]

Thanks. That fixed the problem.

Obviously, I'm still living in the 20th (if not the 19th) century,
but it's time for me to enter the modern world. MacTeX sounds like
a good place to start. However, I'm still using TeXShop. Is there a  
newer/better
front end with which I should replace this?


On Mar 26, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Alan Munn wrote:

> At 12:34 PM -0700 3/26/07, Chetan Nayak wrote:
>> I have the following strange problem, but have not been able to  
>> find any possible
>> causes/solutions on the web. I recently re-installed teTeX after my
>> hard drive crashed and had to be replaced. Prior to this, I have  
>> been using these
>> programs for almost 5 years with no problems. (Back when I first  
>> installed these
>> programs, the TeX engines were put in /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc- 
>> apple-darwin-current.
>> Now, Fink Commander put them in /sw/bin and /sw/share, but it's  
>> hard to see how
>> this is the source of the problem once TeXShop knows where to find  
>> them.)
>
> One word of warning.  teTeX is no longer being supported, and  
> Fink's teTeX is pretty old.  You might want to think about  
> intalling the MacTeX TeX Live distribution http://www.tug.org/mactex/
>
>> Now, however, I have the following problem with altpdflatex: the  
>> top margin
>> is too small (maybe even negative), so the text starts up at the  
>> top of the page,
>> and the page numbers don't appear. The problem doesn't occur when  
>> I use pdflatex,
>> only when I use altpdflatex, and it doesn't seem depend on which  
>> distiller
>> I use -- the same problem occurs for both ghostscript and the  
>> built-in distiller in OS X.
>> Any suggestions?
>
> It sounds like the page size is set for A4 for dvips.  Try the  
> following:
>
> sudo texconfig dvips paper letter
>
> Alan
>
>
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