<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 28, 2019, at 4:35 PM, Stacey Harris <<a href="mailto:stacey.harris@slu.edu" class="">stacey.harris@slu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Hi, Paul,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Thanks for writing! But I don't seem to know what to do to fix things<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="">😞 I've tried putting all those files in a folder that contains Textures, but that doesn't do anything.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="">Funny thing I notices is that I had a bunch of Windows files in my download; so I'm wondering if I got corrupted stuff. I thought about downloading again--just starting over--but now I can't locate the free version. Do you know where to find it?</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Stacey,</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I don’t know offhand where on the Web it can be found these days, but I archived a clean copy, including a mysterious email from the author of Textures—mysterious because it appears to have been sent after his death! </div><div><br class=""></div><div>That email gives some details about what to do to get the system to work, notably the need to lock some files before starting the program up.<br class=""><div><br class=""></div>Let me know if you can get things working…</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Paul C</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><hr tabindex="-1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline-block; width: 916.296875px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""></span><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Paul Campbell <<a href="mailto:campbell@beloit.edu" class="">campbell@beloit.edu</a>><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, May 27, 2019 10:02:25 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Stacey Harris<br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: installing Textures on Mac</font><div class=""> </div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Stacey,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I loved Textures, still need to use it for legacy files; had to switch to TeXShop for new work a little over a year ago. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was sad to see Textures die; the author died suddenly, he left no passwords to anyone, and his 70-year-old wife had good intentions but not enough resources to go on.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I too had trouble porting it to a new machine a year and a half ago and don’t remember exactly what I did. The new machine was MacBook Pro, now with 10.12.6 (I haven’t moved up to 10.14 yet).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> I think the main thing was to either to put all of the contents of</div><div class="">TeX Fonts</div><div class="">TeX Inputs</div><div class="">TeX Formats</div><div class="">TeX Metrics (actually, the metrics are in the TeX Fonts folder)</div><div class="">as folders into the folder where Textures lives (I did that), or else to put there aliases to them.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I also have in ~/Library/Textures/ and also in ~/Library/Application Support/Textures an alias to a folder which in turn has aliases to the above.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The above is no doubt overkill, but it works. (I see that on my Mac Pro 10.11.6, I don’t have the folder ~/Library/Textures but I do have ~/Library/Application Support/Textures (locked).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don’t have any of the TeX fonts or metrics in the main Library folder, nor in ~/Library/Fonts:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div id="x_divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">But ~/Library/Fonts has the Computer Modern (including EUFM10, in particular), just as it appears in my personal laptop. </div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">I don’t have any TeX fonts <span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">~/Library/Fonts </span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">on either machine.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div><div class="">Let me know if you get any msg about seeking a key from Bluesky. There is a key-free version of Texture available.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please let me know what other advice you get that works! (in case I need to port again, or in case Textures simply fails under 10.14).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Below is the advice from Bluesky:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28.9px; text-indent: -28.9px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(148, 33, 147);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">We suggest placing an alias to your current TeX Fonts folder</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28.9px; text-indent: -28.9px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(148, 33, 147);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">into the user folder (where ~ means your home folder)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28.9px; text-indent: -28.9px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(148, 33, 147); min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 50.5px; text-indent: -50.6px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(148, 33, 147);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"> ~/Library/Application Support/Textures/Metrics</span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 50.5px; text-indent: -50.6px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(148, 33, 147); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"> </span><br class="x_webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28.9px; text-indent: -28.9px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(148, 33, 147);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">and a similar alias to your current TeX Inputs folder</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28.9px; text-indent: -28.9px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(148, 33, 147);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">into the user folder</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28.9px; text-indent: -28.9px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(148, 33, 147); min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 43.3px; text-indent: -43.4px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(148, 33, 147);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"> ~/Library/Application Support/Textures/Inputs</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28.9px; text-indent: -28.9px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(148, 33, 147); min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28.9px; text-indent: -28.9px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(148, 33, 147);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">This will allow Textures 2.2 to find your current metrics and macros.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28.9px; text-indent: -28.9px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(148, 33, 147);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">(These Inputs and Metrics folders will be automatically created</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 28.9px; text-indent: -28.9px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(148, 33, 147);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">when Textures 2.2 is first launched.)</span></div></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="">Best wishes,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Paul Campbell</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class=""><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; 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Campbell<br class="">Mathematics and Computer Science<br class="">Beloit College<br class="">700 College St.<br class="">Beloit, WI 53511-5595<br class="">USA<br class=""><br class="">ofc: please send email instead<br class="">fax: (608) 363-2052<br class=""><br class="">really old archived Web page at<br class=""><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__web.archive.org_web_20090221120714_http-3A__cs.beloit.edu_campbell_&d=DwMFaQ&c=Pk_HpaIpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=3u7W6w4WT214l4aneeVapXBOHawmNum_Uq5sDEecjZs&m=39JGElixE5esSeCl-McK76d24A8jimrXDA7AkPryJoM&s=dDCleimhCNp6ZTdYKPUvnIyg7VGfKlyxV94ugIa99cw&e=" class="">https://web.archive.org/web/20090221120714/http://cs.beloit.edu/campbell/</a></div></div></div></div></span></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class="">
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