gmane.comp.tex.macosx

Thanks and Dingbat package

soumya dipta — 2008-08-23T04:46:42

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Latex Packages and Installing XY pic

soumya dipta — 2008-08-22T06:49:59

Answers to Questions in Exams

Alain Schremmer — 2008-08-22T05:30:20

Off Topic! Off Topic! Off Topic! I have an n questions multiple choice exam system based on Talbot's probsoln.sty that uses a databank in which each Exercise(i), i≤n, comes in a number of Avatar(i, j) and where ExerciseAnswer(i, j), which indicates witch one of the choices is correct, is recorded after the multiple choices of Avatar(i, j). (To clarify the terminology, if Exercise(12) is "addition of single digit numbers", the ExerciseText of Avatar(12, 1) might be "Add 2 and 3", the ExerciseText of Avatar(12, 2) might be "Add 7 and 2", etc) What I would be able to do is to collect in an ExamKEY the ExerciseAnswer(i, j) for all the (i, j) probsoln.sty used when creating an ExamTEXT. The way things work right now, for each p ≤ n, —with "showanswers" turned OFF, probsoln.sty picks randomly the file Exercise(i), then Avatar(i, j) and then places ExerciseText(i, j) in the pth position in ExamTEXT, —with "showanswers" turned ON, probsoln.sty picks randomly the file Exercise(i)

problem with running project root file

Sheetal Silal — 2008-08-21T18:11:42

I'm compiling my thesis in TexShop and set up the main project file. I didnt know that one isnt supposed to include \begin{document} and \end{document}. So when I typetsetted the main file, it reduced my chapters to this \relax \< at >setckpt{Chapter2/Epidemiology}{ \setcounter{page}{1} \setcounter{equation}{0} \setcounter{enumi}{0} \setcounter{enumii}{0} \setcounter{enumiii}{0} \setcounter{enumiv}{0} \setcounter{footnote}{0} \setcounter{mpfootnote}{0} \setcounter{part}{0} \setcounter{chapter}{0} \setcounter{section}{0} \setcounter{subsection}{0} \setcounter{subsubsection}{0} \setcounter{paragraph}{0} \setcounter{subparagraph}{0} \setcounter{figure}{0} \setcounter{table}{0} } Does anyone know of a way in which I can get my chapters back? Any help would be much appreciated. Also, are the packages and the begin and end document only to be included in the project file and not the individual chapter files? ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq Lis

Chinese character subscripts in TexShop

Nathaniel Pearson — 2008-08-21T16:03:09

Working with TexShop, I'm trying to typeset a small number of Chinese characters as subscripts for Roman characters. The problem of inputting and/or outputting Chinese characters in TexShop seems to have popped up often on this list and elsewhere. I've tried in vain to implement various publicly posted solutions: specifying UTF-8 encoding; invoking packages like fontspec; etc. But no dice. I suspect that part of the problem is how I'm entering characters into the .tex file in the first place. I've tried cutting and pasting in an already rendered character, for example, and it pastes fine into the input code, but is not rendered in output under any of the various posted methods. Alternatively, I've tried to figure out a way to include the character's Unicode identifier (U-9670, fwiw), but am not sure how to do so or even whether that's a viable approach. Any advice would be appreciated; thanks. ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq List Re

Size of braces and parentheses in split environment

R Martinez — 2008-08-17T21:49:54

All, The following display equation using a split environment produces curly braces and parentheses of different sizes in each line of the expression. I would like both lines to have braces and parentheses that have the same size as those in the first line. Your help is appreciated. \begin{equation} \begin{split} K_z &= \frac{1}{\left( \sigma_{x}^{2} + \sigma_{y}^{2}\right)^{2}} \: \left(\mathcal{E} \left\{\left( X- \eta_x \right)^4 \right\} + \mathcal{E} \left\{\left( Y- \eta_y \right)^4 \right\} \right. \\ & \quad \quad +\left. 2\,\mathcal{E} \left\{\left( X- \eta_x \right)^2 \left( Y- \eta_y \right)^2 \right\} \right) \end{split} \end{equation} Thanks in advance, Raul Martinez ----------- 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.es

Smaller size video presentations

George Gratzer — 2008-08-15T16:21:04

beamer and preview

Doris Wagner — 2008-08-13T17:35:08

hi list, when I use beamer with texshop, I have problems with getting preview to do what I want, namely: when I use the page-up or page-down keys of my keyboard, it doesn't jump slidewise, but depending on the actual size of the window, such that I e.g. see the lower half of one slide and the upper half of the next one. is there a possibility to change this behaviour? tia 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

Egyptian hieroglyphs and Babylonian cuneiform fonts

John B. Thoo — 2008-08-11T21:18:44

Hello. I'm writing some notes on ancient Egyptian and Babylonian numeral systems, and I would like to be able to typeset them. I was pointed to this Web page and it looks like "Aegyptus" and "Akkadian" have the symbols I need (plus too much more), but I'm at a loss of how to proceed in using them. Another lead is this article, in which the last paragraph states that there are fonts I'm looking to use in CTAN. Popping over there, I found fonts/archaic/hieroglf fonts/cun I'm using Tex Live 2007 under Mac OS 10.4.11 on my 12" PowerBook G4. I have never installed new fonts, so the simplest directions would be very much appreciated. I checked the archives and found this thread but, to be honest, I'm more than a little dumbfounded still. TIA. ---John. (who receives the *digest* version of this list) ----------

Video presentations introducing LaTeX

George Gratzer — 2008-08-11T19:47:44

I started making a series of video presentations on introducing LaTeX. You can find them on my iDisk. Go>Other user's public folder and type gratzer Drag the folder to your desktop. Any comments are welcome. 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

Flashmode BBEdit

Claus Gerhardt — 2008-08-09T21:53:18

The BBEdit version of Flashmode works with TexShop as previewer. It requires an intelMac and OS 10.5.x or better. To install Flashmode, please follow exactly the instructions for the original Flashmode version for TeXShop, especially arrange the pdf and text files in TeXShop to your liking. The position of the tex file in BBEdit should correspond to the position of the file in TeXShop. Using TeXShop as previewer requires that the tex file is also open in TeXShop. This will be automatically arranged by Flashmode. The copy of the tex file in TeXShop will also automatically be refreshed such that its content is always identical to that of the original file. Syncing between the preview window and the source file should be done in TeXShop including any editing that results from it. The tex window in BBEdit will automatically reflect these changes. The additional Applescripts provided by Flashmode still target TeXShop as editor, but they can be applied to any tex file open and frontmost

Font problem on printing

Jung-Tsung Shen — 2008-08-07T19:13:37

I am asking for my boss, who was a long time Word user and recently started using LaTeX. The typesetting and compiling was fine on his computer, but when he printed the file, the font got screwed up -- the text font was not right and the mathematical formula were all wrong. What could be the causes for this and what are the solutions? His system is OS X 10.5 + MacTeX + TeXShop. Thanks for any comments and suggestions. JT ----------- 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

pdfsync conflict with memoir

Themis Matsoukas — 2008-08-07T18:56:29

There seems to be a conflict between pdfsync and memoir, specifically with the p option in tabular. The sample below is a a 4-column table, copied directly from the memoir manual (meman.pdf, p 165). In the typeset document the table extends beyond the right margin. Removing the pdfsync package remives the problem and the table appears as shown in the manual. Also, there is no conflict when the same is typeset using the standard article class (but you must remove \raggedright \arraybackslash). \documentclass[11pt,article]{memoir} \usepackage{pdfsync} \begin{document} % \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{|c|p{5.5pc}|c|p{5.5pc}|} \hline \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{Multicolumn entry!} & THREE & FOUR \\ \hline one & \raggedright\arraybackslash The width of this column is fixed (5.5pc). & three & \raggedright\arraybackslash Column four will act in the same way as column two, with the same width.\\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{center} % \end{document} Can we hope for a fix? Themis ----------- Please Consult the F

Old Sites Need Updating.

Herbert Schulz — 2008-08-06T13:00:07

Howdy, While looking up the most recent versions of software that is to be included in MacTeXtras (everything in MacTeX that isn't part of the MacTeX installer package) I've noticed that many sites also have information about installation of a TeX distribution, etc. Unfortunately that information is often very out of date and can lead to terrible confusion. One example is the installation of fonts and updating map files; many sites were never updated when the default behavior of updmap (and other system applications) changed with the addition of -sys versions (which behave the way the older versions behaved). I believe we've had lots of problems with font installation and format creation because of this. If you are running a site with such information please update it to agree with most recent practices. Good Luck, Herb Schulz (herbs-EnPF47/3+YSD9iCl+R0B7w< at >public.gmane.org) ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq List

Default rule thickness

Oliver Buerschaper — 2008-08-06T07:34:08

Dear wizards, does someone know how to find out the current value of default_rule_thickness in a (La)TeX document? TeX uses it to determine the line width of fraction bars and roots in math mode … Best, Oliver ----------- 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 change system wide Latex editor?

soumya dipta — 2008-08-05T23:40:42

latex weird on leopard

2008-08-05T22:15:03

Hello, I've just got a computer with Leopard. For the life of me, I cannot get TexShop to automatically update when I use the terminal to typeset a .tex document. This used to work in Panther and Tiger without fuss. I have "Configure for external editor" and "Automatic Preview Update" selected in TeXShop's prefs. I use vim as editor, and from within vim I call pdflatex. What's new to me here is that in order to see my updated PDF, I have to Command-Tab to make Texshop active first; only THEN will it update my pdf. If I just keep it on vim, I see nothing. It didn't use to be that way. Does anyone have an idea? -Epicurus ----------- 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

Installing Lucida fonts under home folder

Chris Goedde — 2008-08-05T16:16:09

Hi all, So I'm installing the Lucida fonts that I just purchased from TUG under my home folder (i.e. in ~/Library/texmf), and the instructions are a bit too cryptic. So I need some help. I unzipped the lucida- complete file, and I put all the files in the right places (I think) under ~/Library/texmf. If I'm reading the instructions correctly, what I need to do next is run updmap (not updmap-sys, because I'm just installing them for myself, right?), but I have some questions. (1) What should my current working directory be when I run updmap? Does it matter? (2) Where should I put the output files? Do I need to use the -- outputdir directory option? If so, what argument? Do I just run: updmap --enable Map lucida.map or do I need to use some other options? (3) Anything else I need to do? Thanks. Chris ----------- 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:/

Include individual pages of a PDF file

Oliver Buerschaper — 2008-08-04T21:34:47

Dear LaTeX wizards, I'm trying to include a specific page of a given (multi-page) PDF file. Is this possible with the graphicx package? Perhaps something along the lines of \includegraphics[page=2]{all_my_figures.pdf} Thanks in advance, Oliver ----------- 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

Configuring man pages

Chris Goedde — 2008-08-04T20:59:48

Hi all, I'm moving machines, so I'm doing my once-every-five-years reinstall of the lucida fonts. I'm trying to use updmap, but my system can't find the man page. Using find, I see that it lives in /usr/local/ texlive/2007/texmf/doc/man/man1. Ugh. Anyway, what's the easiest, most future-proof way to be able to view this man page (and all the others in that tree) from the terminal? Chris ----------- 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

security issue?

Joseph C. Slater PE, PhD — 2008-08-04T02:16:41

Brian...I don't know his last name, suggested that uploads be limited to graphics only for fear of a malicious user uploading trojan horses. Only "trusted" users could upload zip, etc, files. Thoughts? Note that the psu site in the past was the repository for many smaller projects without dedicated webspaces. I'll be out on Monday. Someone other than me should set up their account to get notification when changes are made to the wiki so they can monitor in case things go bad (tomorrow, or in the future). I'm sure catching it early would be very helpful. Joe \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ (+1) 937-775-5085 http://www.cs.wright.edu/~jslater http://www.cs.wright.edu/~jslater/JosephSlater.vcf.zip ----------- 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