[Mac OS X TeX] TeXShop & pdfscreen (Mac OS X 10.1)
get86 at mac.com
get86 at mac.com
Wed Oct 24 05:48:35 EDT 2001
<x-flowed>before i ask tons of questions.. what is texpower? and is it for Mac OS X?
i use TeXShop and hope someone can tell me how to install pdfscreen
to use 'under' TeXShop. i have it working but don't how to tell tex
the 'path'? or how to fix it so it always knows... am i making sense?
thanks
At 5:41 PM +0800 10/24/01, Louis Moresi wrote:
>For those interested, I can summarize what I managed to make work
>well for me to get both pdfscreen and texpower working together.
>
>1) pdfscreen installed in ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/pdfscreen
>(together with texpower in ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/texpower)
>
>2) Using the pdflatex route to build the presentation / pdf file.
>
>3) Increasing the capacities of pdflatex to be similar to those
>chosen for context in the texmf.cnf file, as described by michael
>murray in an earlier message (excerpt below))
>
>4) specifying \usepackage{texpower} before \usepackage{pdfscreen}
>also helps reduce the number of exclamations during processing if
>you are using both packages
>
>5) texpower seems to be evolving fast, with an interesting
>collection of bug-like features. But the basic \step command works
>really quite well. It interacts with pdfscreen a little strangely
>on producing new pages. Adding \newpage here and there helps greatly.
>
>Louis
>
>
>
>On Wednesday, October 24, 2001, at 12:27 , get86 at mac.com wrote:
>
>>anyone know how to install pdfscreen on TeXShop running in Mac OS X 10.1?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>max2
>
>>(Michael Murray suggested)
>
>>>Edit the file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf as follows.
>>>In that file search for every occurence of `context' . You should
>>>see lines like:
>>>
>>>main_memory.context = 1500000
>>>main_memory.mpost = 1000000
>>>main_memory = 263000 % words of inimemory available; also
>>>applies to inimf&mp
>>>
>>>You should add a line like
>
>>>main_memory.pdflatex = 15000000
>>>
>>>Do this for every memory related parameter that is set for
>>>context. After this run
>>>
>>>texconfig init
>
>
>
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