gmane.comp.tex.macosx

tlmgr GUI

Nathan Paxton — 2008-10-07T18:09:59

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PDF printing error

David Airey — 2008-10-07T17:59:38

Hi all, I'm having difficulty printing a PDF created with MacTeX 2008. I get the error message: ***CUT*** ERROR: MemoryFull OFFENDING COMMAND: definefont STACK: -dictionary- /F107.1 ***CUT*** The PDF file itself is not more than 2 mb in size. It contains a few PDF figures created in R. They print fine by themselves or when pasted in to Apple Pages. Any clues as to why this PDF fails to print? -Dave ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq List Reminders and Etiquette: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/list/ List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/ List Info: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex

Word to LaTeX

George Gratzer — 2008-10-07T15:13:12

I have a 300 page book in Word, with lots of simple math formulas. What is the best way to turn it into a Word document? Free or commercial, Mac or PC? GG ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq List Reminders and Etiquette: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/list/ List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/ List Info: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex

xfrac

Axel E. Retif — 2008-10-07T07:55:50

First, sorry for cross-posting..., but I really think members of these three lists might like ---and profit from--- the xfrac package, by Morten Høgholm. xfrac allows you to use split fractions in a new way, both using the defaults or, better yet, creating your own instances per font family, and both in text and math modes. I've been using xfrac for some time; unfortunately, its dependencies in TeX Live 2007 were outdated ---I got the right ancillary files from the LaTeX3 project, I think. But now with TeX Live 2008 we have a new xfrac package and all needed dependencies are there and up to date. If you're interested, texdoc xfrac Best, Axel----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq List Reminders and Etiquette: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/list/ List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/ List Info: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex

i-Installer

Salvatore Enrico Indiogine — 2008-10-07T03:33:06

I just updated to the latest version of i-Installer and I need to install Latex2rtf. My prof does not like pdf submissions. However, when I click on the package (actually any package) the following message box pops up: Error This i-Package requires at least OS X version: (null). Could not load And the lovely button with "Accept defeat" is the only thing that I can click. I have a fully updated TeXlive 2008 installation. I run the latest version of OSX on a Macbook. Any ideas on what is going on? Google did not help me. Thanks, Enrico

gtamacfonts

Dr. Clea F. Rees — 2008-10-06T18:06:49

Does anybody know if the substantive contents of gtamacfonts has altered or whether the support files etc. are identical to those in previous versions? I moved my installation of gtamacfonts to texlive/texmf-local when I switched to TL which seemed to work fine. I'm just wondering if there is anything to be gained by installing the updated version. Also, if the Hoefler text ornaments are still unavailable for use in LaTeX and anybody is interested, I would be happy to send them copies of the support files I created for this purpose on the understanding that they are strictly experimental. While I can't imagine them sending your hard drive to its death or ordering take-aways behind your back, I don't actually know what I'm doing and haven't tested them on any machine other than my own. I read somewhere that Hoefler changed between Tiger and Leopard. If so, they might not work on Leopard, at any rate. You need gtamacfonts installed to use it as all I did was create the font definition file for LaTeX and a style file which defines a command to access the ornaments. The only documentation is a list which maps numbers to ornaments. You use the numbers to access the ornaments using the command defined in the style file. - cfr ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq List Reminders and Etiquette: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/list/ List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/ List Info: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex

TextWrangler integration scripts

Daniel Becker — 2008-10-06T09:16:44

Hallo - I wanted to try the TextWrangler integration scripts from http://www.xs4all.nl/~msneep/latex/ However, the folder "TeX Compilation" does not appear in the menu. All other items that I have in the folder appear. The folder contains: macbook-daniel:~ daniel$ ls -l /Users/daniel/Library/Application\ Support/TextWrangler/Scripts total 16 drwxr-xr-x 11 daniel staff 374 6 Okt 10:48 01)Stata Scripts drwxr-xr-x< at > 25 daniel staff 850 12 Sep 01:27 02)TeX Compilation drwxr-xr-x 7 daniel staff 238 25 Jan 2008 05)Duplicate Removal + Sorting Lines drwxr-xr-x 5 daniel staff 170 25 Jan 2008 10)Font + Invisibles -rwxr-xr-x< at > 1 daniel staff 3342 6 Okt 10:51 99)About the Scripts Menu.scpt I have no idea what to do - thanks for help Daniel ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq List Reminders and Etiquette: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/list/ List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/ List Info: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex

How to use special characters in TeXShop

Yu (Ryan) Yue — 2008-10-06T02:06:46

i-Installer Announcements from Gerben Wierda

Richard Koch — 2008-10-06T02:03:22

Folks, Below are two announcements by Gerben Wierda that appeared on the Ii2- announce list. Both are of interest to members of this group: ----- i-Installer has been updated to version 2.92. One change: support for OS X version limitations in the i-Package. This enables me to create i- Packages that will work on 10.5 and up only. It will be pretty likely that upcoming i-Package updates will be 10.5 and up only as I do not have 10.4 systems anymore to build and building for 10.4 on 10.5 has turned out to be a nightmare. There is also a new i-Package: LZMA. It wIll install only on 10.5 if you use i-Installer 2.92. i-Installer 2.91 will happily install this on 10.4 and probably for this i-Package that will work. ------ I have released a special i-Package for TeX Live, "TeX Live Support: GW Extras". This i-Package contains GTAMacFonts and TeXDist: - GTAMacFonts requires the fondu program to work (i-Package available). It will unpack several Apple System fonts and make them usable for TeX. After installation, run "texdoc gtamacfonts" on the command line to get the documentation. These fonts need to be unpacked on your system for legal reasons, hence they cannot be fully part of a free TeX distribution. The i-Package installs the (free license) support files (e.g. style files) and then generates the ttf files from Apple's fonts and puts them in your texmf-local. - TeXDist is a way to represent TeX distributions and work with them. A texdist program is added to work with different distributions from the command line (texdist --help will give you documentation). It also installs the Preference Pane from Jérôme Laurens so you can switch TeX distributions easily. G PS. I am moving to TeX Live 2008 as my default system. This means that in the future I will probably completely drop any personal TeX distributions for my own use. I have not decided what to do with the existing stuff. ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq List Reminders and Etiquette: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/list/ List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/ List Info: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex

Autorotation again

Roberto Avanzi — 2008-10-03T19:27:25

Until a couple of days ago I used to modify /usr/texbin/simpdftex to add a -dAutoRotatePages=3D/None parameter to the ps2pdf13 call. I would change lines 488-497 as follows if [ "${distillerfilter}" = "yes" ]; then /bin/echo "### ${distillerprog} <${psfile} >${pdffile}" "${distillerprog}" "-dAutoRotatePages=3D/None" <"${psfile}" >"$ {pdffile}" || \ { /bin/echo "### FAILED to generate ${pdffile} (${status})" exit 1; } else /bin/echo "### ${distillerprog} ${psfile} ${pdffile}" "${distillerprog}" "-dAutoRotatePages=3D/None" "${psfile}" "$ {pdffile}" || \ { /bin/echo "### FAILED to generate ${pdffile} (${status})" exit 1; } I made a TL updare (using tlmgr) this morning and noticed that some pages were again rotated automatically. The /usr/texbin/simpdftex file had been modified (updated?) and thus I modified the likes again. Now, the result at the end of a compilation had become -dvar=name requires name=null, true, or false ### FAILED to generate /tmp/altpdflatex.90958-1223061711/wurzel- utalca.pdf () How can I turn autorotation off again? thanks Roberto ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq List Reminders and Etiquette: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/list/ List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/ List Info: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex

Fun with multi-file projects

Roberto Avanzi — 2008-10-03T19:36:51

Recently I started playing a bit with headers like %!TEX root = ../harvesting.tex in included files. This is very handy, compiles also from the included files, and synctex is compatible with it. Lot of fun. Sometimes I happen to open several included files at once in TeXShop and what I see is disconcerting included-file-1.tex opened, root file window gets opened then minimised included-file-2.tex opened, root file window gets opened then minimised included-file-3.tex opened, root file window gets opened then minimised and so on. This does not happen always, but only every now and then. I cannot reproduce this reliably. while this is innocuous, this is also visually weird and disturbing... has anybody stumbled in this behaviour yet? Roberto ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq List Reminders and Etiquette: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/list/ List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/ List Info: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex

my Flashmode is not running

2008-10-03T17:57:49

I tried to use Flashmode into TeXShop 2.18 on my Powerbook Intel Core 2 Duo, System 10.5.5. But it does not work at all. Activity Monitor shows that Flasmode does not react and Flasmode-alt reacts. But the pdf window never changes. Any suggestions ? Thank you. Raymond Seroul ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq List Reminders and Etiquette: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/list/ List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/ List Info: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex

dvips and dvipdf can't find header file

Art Werschulz — 2008-10-03T18:03:58

Hi. I'm using the version of TeX that is found in the file MacTeX.mpkg.zip, located on the web page http://www.tug.org/mactex ... I've just started getting the following error when running dvips or dvipdf: $ dvips -o book.ps book This is dvips(k) 5.97 Copyright 2008 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com ) ' TeX output 2008.10.03:1316' -> /dev/null dvips: ! Couldn't find header file times.pfb. Note that an absolute path or a relative path with .. are denied in - R2 mode. $ dvipdf book dvips: ! Couldn't find header file times.pfb. Note that an absolute path or a relative path with .. are denied in - R2 mode. In other words, the last time I ran these commands on this particular set of files, I did not get this error. When I run these commands under Fedora 9 Linux, I get messages dvips: Font TimesNewRomanPSMT used in file relfigmolly.eps is not in the mapping file. dvips: Font TimesNewRomanPSMT used in file relfigrel.eps is not in the mapping file. dvips: Font TimesNewRomanPSMT used in file relfigref.eps is not in the mapping file. dvips: Font TimesNewRomanPSMT used in file relfigsymm.eps is not in the mapping file. dvips: Font TimesNewRomanPSMT used in file relfigtrans.eps is not in the mapping file. but everything else seems okay. Thoughts? Thanks. Art Werschulz 207 Stoughton Avenue, Cranford NJ 07016-2838 (908) 272-1146 ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq List Reminders and Etiquette: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/list/ List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/ List Info: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex

mactex 2008 and hyphenation

Alain Matthes — 2008-10-03T05:05:58

With a simple install of MacTeX, we get: LaTeX2e <2005/12/01> Babel and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, nohyphenation, german-x-2008-06-18, ngerman- x-2008-06-18, ancientgreek, ibycus, arabic, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, galician, german, ngerman, monogreek, greek, hungarian, icelandic, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, latin, mongolian, mongolian2a, bokmal, nynorsk, polish, portuguese, romanian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, turkish, ukenglish, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded. I would like to have hyphenation only for english, french and nohyphenation. How to proceed ? I have some ideas like change the language.dat file and perhaps to run after that sudo mktexlsr sudo -H updmap-sys sudo -H fmtutil-sys --all but i'm not sure. I prefer to read suggestions of an expert ! Best Regards Alain Matthes ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq List Reminders and Etiquette: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/list/ List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/ List Info: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex

How to update MacTex

Yu (Ryan) Yue — 2008-10-02T20:23:21

font size of console window

Doris Wagner — 2008-10-02T17:56:13

hi list, how can I get the font size of the console window of TeX-Shop larger? it does'nt react on typing cmd_shift_+... and, by the way (hope that this is not too off-topic), is ist possible to change the default font-size of _ALL_ macosX applications? [with onyx and tinker tool I only could change the font sizes in some parts of the windows. I'm on 10.5, by the way d ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq List Reminders and Etiquette: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/list/ List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/ List Info: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex

New TexShop Engine

Luis Vitorio Cargnini — 2008-10-02T06:07:10

File name with accent

Jean-Claude DE SOZA — 2008-10-01T04:13:28

Dear Members, I encountered a weird problem. I have two Mac: one is a PPC G5 and the second a MacBookPro Intel. Both have TeXLive 2008 installed and running perfectly except one thing: when I typeset a file whose name is for instance, Contrôle 1.tex the TeX engine on the MacIntel typeset it without any problem but the typesetting of the exact same file on the PPC Mac engine stops immediately, complaining not about the space in the name but about the diacritic mark << ô >> not recognized. If I change the name to Controle 1.tex, the typesetting goes smoothly to the end. Have you see any problem of this sort? Can I fix it myself? Jean-Claude DE SOZA ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq List Reminders and Etiquette: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/list/ List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/ TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/ List Info: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex

pdfcrop and white equations?

david craig — 2008-10-01T22:09:25

In working with the (extremely responsive) author of LaTeXiT on Mac OS X

Wanted: editor with special skills

Dominikus Heinzeller — 2008-10-01T14:32:56

Lucida

Michael Kubovy — 2008-10-01T01:33:16