[OS X TeX] Problem with LaTeXit

[Michael Braun]

Hi.  Hopefully this is an appropriate mailing list for this question  
(if not, can you please point me in the right direction?)

This is question about LaTeXiT 1.16.1, which I would like to use it to  
embed LaTeX equations in my Keynote presentations.  I am running Mac  
OSX 10.5.5, and I have TeXLive installed as my TeX distribution.  I  
have no problems at all compiling or viewing LaTeX documents on my  
system.

However, I cannot seem to get LaTeXiT to work at all.   For example,  
suppose I just want to display an alpha.  The source that LaTeXiT  
generates is:

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage[usenames]{color}\color[rgb]{0.000,0.000,0.000}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\pagestyle{empty} \begin{document}$\displaystyle \alpha
$
\end{document}

The problem is that there is really no pattern to what happens when I  
run this in LaTeXiT.  The first time, it might work, but then if I add  
a subscript, like \alpha_i, I'll get nothing.  And then if I go back  
to \alpha, I get nothing.  But usually, I won't even get \alpha the  
first time.  If I try displaying simple text or numbers, it's usually  
in some kind of corrupted, poorly spaced default font, and not a  
standard, nice-looking LaTeX font.  (It looks like what you'd get in a  
pdf file if the fonts aren't configured correctly).  Sometimes  
deleting the fr.club.ktd.LaTeXiT.plist file helps, but usually not.   
Clearing the history never helps.  There are no errors in the log that  
I can see.

This is not a problem just with greek letters.  If I enter \int_0^x, I  
get the 0 and the x, but no integral sign, and the 0 and x are in  
position, but in that ugly, sans-serif font that just looks like a  
mistake.

I'm sorry I can't describe this output better, but I can provide  
images of this output if it would be helpful (I didn't want to post  
images to the message board).  But I would appreciate any help someone  
on this list can offer.  Thanks in advance.

Best wishes,

Michael


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Michael Braun
braunm _at_ mit.edu