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Last year my sister and I completed a 560 page book. I did the the typeset commands, restored and placed over 100 very old photos, maps and line drawings most of which were included as .jpg, but there were a few .png where I used transparency to show the frayed edges. I used Aquamacs/AucTeX and she used TeXshop, translating from Russian and Polish (with help from her husband), as she typed.</blockquote><div> </div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Impressive work!</div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
On reading your post I immediately re-set the book with MacTeX 2021. It was fine. (Huge sigh of relief)<br>
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What I do differently to you is there is no messing with Ghostscript or any clever commands to the XeLaTeX engine. I use the LuaLaTex engine from Aquamacs without anything special. It just works.</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Given Herb's remark "Interestingly for TeX Live 2020 transparency for xelatex used to work but no longer does at the end of life. I won't go further.", ---- <br></blockquote><div><br></div>In Aquamacs, I can't typeset any .tex files with drawings that require pstricks. These files used to be typeset finely with:<br>- latex->dvips->ps2pdf, up to some point of TeX Live 2020 (Autumn)<br>- XeLaTeX in the latest TeX Live 2020<br><br>Now, neither of these engines work in Aquamacs. It is, as Herb explained, by Ghostscript 9.53.3. The commands with the options that Herb gave work finely from the command line of Terminal. But I do not know, any longer with the newer versions, how to set them in AucTeX in Aquamacs.<br> <br>If you know how to get the commands that Herb gave in Aquamacs / AucTeX, I'll appreciate<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> instructions</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">.</span> But we should switch this subject to Aquamacs list - I'll post the issues there, soon.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:medium"><br></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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I'd suggest doing a test using LuaLaTeX. It's a 1-click command to change engines in Aquamacs. (and similarly easy in TeXshop).<br></blockquote><div><br></div>LuaLaTeX desn't seem to work on .tex files that require pstricks, incl. on Herb's file TransparencyTest.tex - I've tried in Aquamacs and in TeXShop. But in my Aquamacs LuaLaTeX doesn't work on any of the simple .tex files I've tried. TeXShop typesets these simple .tex finely with LuaTeX!<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Why do my sister and I use different editors? She's in Australia and I am in the UK. Teaching her Emacs from that distance was too much of a challenge. We would share work with odd and even version numbers and I would merge with the amazing Emacs ediff, which is one reason why you will have to prise my Emacs keyboard from my cold dead fingers.<br>
<br></blockquote><br>This is impressive! On what topic<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> is the book</span>?<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> But it probably without pstricks.</span><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I think it would be not worth the trouble to teach Aquamacs and TeXshop to look for each other's .pdf outputs especially as it seems Aquamacs displays with Skim by default and your TeXshop seems to be using Preview (I think that is configurable). </blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I use the default viewing in TeXShop. Trying to get it in parallel with Aquamacs was just for the purpose, to compare the pdf outputs in them, esp. because now I can't get Aquamacs working with pstricks. Everything is wonderfully fine with TeXShop. I am very happy with both Aquamacs and TeXShop, and am not going to give them up. I need them working. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Best Regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Roussanka</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Just close your .tex and .pdf before swapping editors. Anything else would be unsafe. How do you discover how each remembers point's position between .tex and .pdf? What happens when the other editor sees something has been messing with files it might have cached? I know what Aquamcs does. It cries and cries and offers among other things to steal it back.<br>
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Elliott Roper<br>
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