[Mac OS X TeX] BBEdit TeX plugins. dvips doesn't work for me....

Charles Bouldin charles.bouldin at nist.gov
Wed Nov 21 13:10:22 EST 2001



<x-flowed>>Subject: [Mac OS X TeX] BBedit Scripts for teTeX (revised)
>From: "Tom Kiffe" <tom at kiffe.com>
>Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 09:21:32 -0600
>
>The BBEdit and BBEdit Lite plug-ins I released last week have been 
>revised and expanded. The set now contains 17 plug-ins and 
>associated shell scripts. These plug-ins require at least OS 10.1 
>and have been tested with BBEdit 6.5 and BBEdit Lite 6.1.2. You must 
>have installed teTeX so that it can be run from the Terminal 
>application. The plug-ins allow you to run tex, latex, pdftex, 
>pdflatex, dvips, dvipdfm, ps2pdf, bibtex, and makeindex from BBEdit. 
>The plug-ins are arranged in a sub menu of BBEdit's Tools Menu and 
>you can bind keys to the plug-ins. The scripts called by the 
>plug-ins can be modified by the user to do further processing.

This is nice. I enjoy the minimalist approach of simply connecting an 
editor and previewer through a TeX engine that remains largely 
invisible. It's working fine for me, except the ps previewing is 
messed up somehow. I got the stuff below on the terminal:

>Welcome to Darwin!
>cd "/Volumes/Firewire/Textures/papers/FeffMPI_PRB"; dvips.script mpi111501.dvi
>[h196132:~] charlesb% cd 
>"/Volumes/Firewire/Textures/papers/FeffMPI_PRB"; dvips.script 
>mpi111501.dvi
>This is dvips(k) 5.86d Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software 
>(www.radicaleye.com)
>' TeX output 2001.11.21:1257' -> |lpr
>dvips: ! couldn't open output pipe
>[h196132:Textures/papers/FeffMPI_PRB] charlesb% d 
>"/Volumes/Firewire/Textures/papers/FeffMPI_PRB"
>d: Command not found.
>[h196132:Textures/papers/FeffMPI_PRB] charlesb% ls *.dvi
>mpi111501.dvi
>[h196132:Textures/papers/FeffMPI_PRB] charlesb% dvips mpi
>mpi111501.aux  mpi111501.pdf  mpi611.tex*    mpi62401.blg*  mpi62401.tex*
>mpi111501.dvi  mpi111501.tex  mpi62401.aux*  mpi62401.log* 
>mpi111501.log  mpi611.aux     mpi62401.bbl*  mpi62401.pdf* 
>[h196132:Textures/papers/FeffMPI_PRB] charlesb% dvips mpi11
>mpi111501.aux  mpi111501.dvi  mpi111501.log  mpi111501.pdf  mpi111501.tex
>[h196132:Textures/papers/FeffMPI_PRB] charlesb% dvips mpi111501.dvi
>This is dvips(k) 5.86d Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software 
>(www.radicaleye.com)
>' TeX output 2001.11.21:1302' -> |lpr
><texc.pro>. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] jobs 
>queued, but cannot start daemon.
>
>[h196132:Textures/papers/FeffMPI_PRB] charlesb%

 From this I gather that dvips isn't launching correctly? But I don't 
know how to fix it....

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