MacOSX-TeX Digest #252 - 03/02/02

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MacOSX-TeX Digest #252 - Saturday, March 2, 2002

  One small TeXShop suggestion
          by "Charles Bouldin" <charles.bouldin at nist.gov>
  Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TeXShop 1.16 Fixed + Apology
          by "Michael Murray" <mmurray at maths.adelaide.edu.au>
  Google Search Fixed on  Mac OS X TeX Mailing List Digests
          by "Gary L. Gray" <gray at engr.psu.edu>
  [Mac OS X TeX] Include multipages PDF document
          by "Lawrence Armstrong" <armstron at ipgp.jussieu.fr>
  [ANN] LaTeX enhanced mac-emacs (v. 1.2)
          by "Enrico Franconi" <franconi at cs.man.ac.uk>
  Re: [OS X TeX] [Mac OS X TeX] Include multipages PDF document
          by "Piet van Oostrum" <piet at cs.uu.nl>
  Clipboard access in Emacs
          by "Mark Guzdial" <guzdial at cc.gatech.edu>
  Re: [OS X TeX] Clipboard access in Emacs
          by "Enrico Franconi" <franconi at cs.man.ac.uk>
  BibDesk 0.6b released
          by "Michael McCracken" <michael_mccracken at mac.com>
  Bug in TeXShop 1.16 (was: TeXShop 1.16)
          by "Matthias Damm" <m.damm at web.de>
  Re: [OS X TeX] Bug in TeXShop 1.16 (was: TeXShop 1.16)
          by "Hanspeter Schaub" <HanspeterSchaub at mac.com>
  Epstopdf and the bounding box?
          by "Bob Strain" <strain at cfm.brown.edu>
  Re: [OS X TeX] Epstopdf and the bounding box?
          by "Piet van Oostrum" <piet at cs.uu.nl>
  Re: [OS X TeX] Clipboard access in Emacs
          by "Piet van Oostrum" <piet at cs.uu.nl>
  Re: [OS X TeX] Clipboard access in Emacs
          by "David Wagner" <wagner at math.uh.edu>
  Re: [OS X TeX] Epstopdf and the bounding box?
          by "Bob Strain" <strain at cfm.brown.edu>
  TeXShop 1.16 Revisited
          by "Richard Koch" <koch at darkwing.uoregon.edu>
  Re: [OS X TeX] Epstopdf and the bounding box?
          by "Joseph C. Slater" <joseph.slater at wright.edu>
  Re: [OS X TeX] Bug in TeXShop 1.16 (was: TeXShop 1.16)
          by "Ben Wooliscroft" <bwooliscroft at e3.net.nz>
  TeXShop feature requests (was: TeXShop 1.16)
          by "Matthias Damm" <m.damm at web.de>
  Re: [OS X TeX] Epstopdf and the bounding box?
          by "Peter Erwin" <erwin at ll.iac.es>
  Re: [OS X TeX] Epstopdf and the bounding box?
          by "Gerben Wierda" <sherlock at rna.nl>
  Re: [OS X TeX] [ANN] LaTeX enhanced mac-emacs (v. 1.2)
          by "Paolo Ghirardato" <paolo at hss.caltech.edu>
  A french dictionary for TeXShop
          by "Jerome Dubois" <jer_dubois at libertysurf.fr>
  Re: [OS X TeX] Epstopdf and the bounding box?
          by "Gerben Wierda" <sherlock at rna.nl>
  Re: [OS X TeX] [ANN] LaTeX enhanced mac-emacs (v. 1.2)
          by "Joseph C. Slater" <joseph.slater at wright.edu>
  Re: [OS X TeX] Epstopdf and the bounding box?
          by "Bob Strain" <strain at e151.cfm.brown.edu>
  Re: [OS X TeX] A french dictionary for TeXShop
          by "William McCallum" <mccallumwilliam at qwest.net>
  Re: [OS X TeX] [ANN] LaTeX enhanced mac-emacs (v. 1.2)
          by "Rick Zaccone" <zaccone at bucknell.edu>


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Subject: One small TeXShop suggestion
From: "Charles Bouldin" <charles.bouldin at nist.gov>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 21:49:08 -0500

Just downloaded the 1.16 TeXShop, and I must say that it is a 
pleasure to see how this application just keeps getting better. Could 
I make one small suggestion:

In the preview window, there is "change scale" button that is an 
up/down arrow that changes the magnification in increments of 10% at 
a time. Instead, could this be a popup menu of various scaling 
choices? Especially could it include the useful troika of "Fit to 
Window, Fit to Width, Actual Size". The kind of thing I have in mind 
is just what Adobe Acrobat Reader does.

Very nice to have so many good Tex choices on OSX.


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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TeXShop 1.16 Fixed + Apology
From: "Michael Murray" <mmurray at maths.adelaide.edu.au>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 14:48:13 +1030

>Folks,
>
>The crash on quitting TeXShop should be fixed in the version
>now on my web site.
>
>There is a preference item called "On Startup: Open Empty
>Document." On my machine, this is checked. I predict that
>those who saw the crash don't have it checked.
>
>Apologies.
>
>Dick
>koch at math.uoregon.edu
>


Yes the new version works fine for me with or without a
new document opening on startup.

Thanks - Michael

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Subject: Google Search Fixed on  Mac OS X TeX Mailing List Digests
From: "Gary L. Gray" <gray at engr.psu.edu>
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 23:56:04 -0500

I finally got the Google search capability fixed on the Mac OS X TeX Mailing
List Digests page at:

<http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/MacOSX-TeX-Digests/>

You can now search the archives of this list!!

-- Gary


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Subject: [Mac OS X TeX] Include multipages PDF document
From: "Lawrence Armstrong" <armstron at ipgp.jussieu.fr>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 14:14:43 +0100

Hi,

Does anybody know how to include a multipage PDF document (ie a word 
document) in a latex document ? It should be possible...

Thank you in advance,
--
Lawrence Armstrong
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris,
Laboratoire de Dynamique des Systemes Geologiques.


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Subject: [ANN] LaTeX enhanced mac-emacs (v. 1.2)
From: "Enrico Franconi" <franconi at cs.man.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 13:33:23 +0000

I've just uploaded a new release of the LeTeX enhanced mac-emacs. It
has a simplified installer (just copy the two applications to the
/Applications folder), thanks to the new features of Applescript
introduced in 10.1.3. Get it (and send comments) from
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~franconi/mac-emacs/

If you want more LaTeX features to be added to mac-emacs, let me know.

This Emacs is built on top of the mac-emacs.sourceforge.net emacs-21.1
distribution (for MacOSX), enhanced with fully customisable LaTeX
editing environment based on auctex and other packages. This installer
includes everything (but not tetex and ghostview); there is no need to
have X11 installed. From mac-emacs, you can launch directly any latex
process or any mac application (like MacGhostview, Acrobat Reader,
TexShop, OzTeX, etc).

To make a full install:
- drag the Emacs package to the /Applications folder;
- drag the mac-emacs application to the /Applications folder.

Notes:
- The mac-emacs application can be double-clicked and accepts files
  drag-and-dropped onto it. 
- Always launch (or drag-and-drop to) the mac-emacs application, never
  the Emacs package.
- The mac-emacs application can be moved from the /Applications
  folder; the Emacs package can not be moved from the /Applications
  folder.
- No X11 is required.
- mac-emacs requires a working installation of teTeX and ghostview.
- The creator code of the mac-emacs application is EMAx.
- mac-emacs loads automatically the file ~/.mac-emacs if it exists.
  You can study the file 
  /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/share/emacs/site-lisp/loadup.el
- To customise the LaTeX Command menu, modify the fully documented file
  /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-site.el
- To have full spelling checking capabilities, install "ispell" from
  fink. The latest precompiled binary is usually available with dselect.
- Bugs (from the original Emacs distribution): This port of Emacs does
  not support 3 buttons mice; customisation browsing still does not
  work.

To play with it, open a .tex file; from the command menu (or with C-c
C-c) select "latex" and, if the compilation is successful, then "view".

-- 
Enrico Franconi                     - franconi at cs.man.ac.uk
University of Manchester            - http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~franconi/
Department of Computer Science      - Phone: +44 (161) 275 6170
Manchester M13 9PL, UK              - Fax:   +44 (161) 275 6204

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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] [Mac OS X TeX] Include multipages PDF document
From: "Piet van Oostrum" <piet at cs.uu.nl>
Date: 02 Mar 2002 15:00:10 +0100

>>>>> Lawrence Armstrong <armstron at ipgp.jussieu.fr> (LA) writes:

LA> Hi,
LA> Does anybody know how to include a multipage PDF document (ie a word
LA> document) in a latex document ? It should be possible...

Use the pdfpages package.
-- 
Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl>
URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP]
Private email: P.van.Oostrum at hccnet.nl


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Subject: Clipboard access in Emacs
From: "Mark Guzdial" <guzdial at cc.gatech.edu>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 09:07:21 -0500

I use EndNote for my bibliography manipulation.  For LaTeX, I simply 
copy out desired references in BibTeX format and then assemble a .bib 
file.

But I'm finding that copying between apps in OS X is a little 
uncertain.  In particular, I don't seem to be able to copy into 
(Carbon) Emacs-21 or Xemacs from (Classic) EndNote.  (I've also noted 
that I can't copy from Carbon-IE into Xemacs.)

Are there any fixes for clipboard problems?  For right now, I'm 
copying from classic EndNote into classic Alpha for the bib file, 
while I edit the LaTeX in Xemacs.  It's a little clumsy.

Thanks!
Mark

-- 
--------------------------
Mark Guzdial : Georgia Tech : College of Computing : Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
Associate Professor - Learning Sciences & Technologies.
Collaborative Software Lab - http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/csl/
(404) 894-5618 : Fax (404) 894-0673 : guzdial at cc.gatech.edu
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Mark.Guzdial.html

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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Clipboard access in Emacs
From: "Enrico Franconi" <franconi at cs.man.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 14:34:22 +0000

On March 2, Mark Guzdial writes:
> But I'm finding that copying between apps in OS X is a little
> uncertain.  In particular, I don't seem to be able to copy into
> (Carbon) Emacs-21 or Xemacs from (Classic) EndNote.  (I've also
> noted that I can't copy from Carbon-IE into Xemacs.)

For copying from (Carbon) mac-emacs to any mac application:
  select text in emacs
  apple-v (or paste) in mac application

Fror copying from any mac application to (Carbon) mac-emacs:
  apple-c (or copy) in mac application
  ctrl-y in emacs

cheers
-- e.

Enrico Franconi                     - franconi at cs.man.ac.uk
University of Manchester            - http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~franconi/
Department of Computer Science      - Phone: +44 (161) 275 6170
Manchester M13 9PL, UK              - Fax:   +44 (161) 275 6204

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Subject: BibDesk 0.6b released
From: "Michael McCracken" <michael_mccracken at mac.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 06:37:23 -0800

BibDesk 0.6b is now available on 
http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~mmccrack/bibdesk.html

It's a major upgrade, including at least one great new feature (Complete 
Citation Service), one major bugfix (opening large files) and tons of UI 
changes (Toolbar, Sorting Table Columns, etc.) - more information is on 
the website, all of it is in the Readme.

So please try it out and if you find it useful or would like to comment, 
send me an email. And of course, feel free to offer suggestions and 
report bugs - it's all in the Readme.

The disclaimer: this is still beta software, and I mean it - so don't 
use it on crucial data unless you've got backups! Don't experiment right 
before a paper deadline! There are some cases where you might lose data 
that I mention in the Readme, but the program warns you about it.

Cheers,
-Michael
--
Michael McCracken
michael_mccracken at mac.com


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Subject: Bug in TeXShop 1.16 (was: TeXShop 1.16)
From: "Matthias Damm" <m.damm at web.de>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 16:30:29 +0100


> TeXShop 1.16 is now available at

I installed the new version, but had to discover a quite severe bug:

I am longer able to use the cursor keys in TeXShop. Instead of moving the
cursor, the system error sound is played. Shift-Cursor, Alt-Cursor etc work
like normal, however.

The problem appeared after I customized the tool bar, but of course this
doesn't mean this was the reason for the problem to appear.

Trashing the prefs file didn't work (the prefs file is the texshop.plist in
my library/preferences folder, right?)

The problem disappeared after reinstalling the 1.15 version of TeXShop.

Can anyone confirm this, or does anyone have a hint for me?

Regards,
Matthias
-- 
Matthias Damm <m.damm at web.de>
PGP key available
"Ein Optimist, wer unsere Welt für die beste aller möglichen hält;
ein Pessimist, wer fürchtet, daß dies stimmt" - James Branch Cabell

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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Bug in TeXShop 1.16 (was: TeXShop 1.16)
From: "Hanspeter Schaub" <HanspeterSchaub at mac.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 08:38:57 -0700

Yes, I have the same issue with the latest version.  What was added is that 
you can use the arrow keys to page forward/backward/upward and down with 
the keys in the PDF window.  A side effect seems to be that you can't use 
the arrow keys in the text window anymore...

HP

On Saturday, March 2, 2002, at 08:30  AM, Matthias Damm wrote:

>
>> TeXShop 1.16 is now available at
>
> I installed the new version, but had to discover a quite severe bug:
>
> I am longer able to use the cursor keys in TeXShop. Instead of moving the
> cursor, the system error sound is played. Shift-Cursor, Alt-Cursor etc work
> like normal, however.
>
> The problem appeared after I customized the tool bar, but of course this
> doesn't mean this was the reason for the problem to appear.
>
> Trashing the prefs file didn't work (the prefs file is the texshop.plist 
> in
> my library/preferences folder, right?)
>
> The problem disappeared after reinstalling the 1.15 version of TeXShop.
>
> Can anyone confirm this, or does anyone have a hint for me?
>
> Regards,
> Matthias
> --
> Matthias Damm <m.damm at web.de>
> PGP key available
> "Ein Optimist, wer unsere Welt für die beste aller möglichen hält;
> ein Pessimist, wer fürchtet, daß dies stimmt" - James Branch Cabell
>
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Subject: Epstopdf and the bounding box?
From: "Bob Strain" <strain at cfm.brown.edu>
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 10:57:58 -0500

Hi,

I apologize if this issue has already been discussed, I just joined the
list.  I am recently attempting to incorporate self made .eps graphics into
my tex documents.  So I have been using the epstopdf command.  The following
is a typical exchange with the computer:

-% epstopdf plot6.eps
==> Warning: BoundingBox not found!

Then the resulting pdf plot6.pdf will be a full page sized pdf when it
should be only the size of the graphic.  This makes it very hard to use.
Could anyone suggest a solution?

Best,
Bob Strain


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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Epstopdf and the bounding box?
From: "Piet van Oostrum" <piet at cs.uu.nl>
Date: 02 Mar 2002 17:24:42 +0100

>>>>> Bob Strain <strain at cfm.brown.edu> (BS) writes:

BS> Hi,
BS> I apologize if this issue has already been discussed, I just joined the
BS> list.  I am recently attempting to incorporate self made .eps graphics into
BS> my tex documents.  So I have been using the epstopdf command.  The following
BS> is a typical exchange with the computer:

BS> -% epstopdf plot6.eps
BS> ==> Warning: BoundingBox not found!

If there is no bounding box, it is not a proper EPS files..

BS> Then the resulting pdf plot6.pdf will be a full page sized pdf when it
BS> should be only the size of the graphic.  This makes it very hard to use.
BS> Could anyone suggest a solution?

You said `self made' EPS file. Does that mean you make them by hand, or
create them with your own program? Anyway, take care that the proper
%%BoundingBox comment is added.
Otherwise epstopdf will not know what size your graphic is and can only
revert to a full-page PDF.
-- 
Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl>
URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP]
Private email: P.van.Oostrum at hccnet.nl


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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Clipboard access in Emacs
From: "Piet van Oostrum" <piet at cs.uu.nl>
Date: 02 Mar 2002 17:31:29 +0100

>>>>> Mark Guzdial <guzdial at cc.gatech.edu> (MG) writes:

MG> I use EndNote for my bibliography manipulation.  For LaTeX, I simply copy
MG> out desired references in BibTeX format and then assemble a .bib file.

MG> But I'm finding that copying between apps in OS X is a little uncertain.
MG> In particular, I don't seem to be able to copy into (Carbon) Emacs-21 or

Do you have Andrew Choi's Emacs 21.1? I have no problem copy-and-pasting
to/from this with e.g. TextEdit or Terminal. Or Appleworks. I just pasted
your message in Appleworks. And something the other way around.
-- 
Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl>
URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP]
Private email: P.van.Oostrum at hccnet.nl


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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Clipboard access in Emacs
From: "David Wagner" <wagner at math.uh.edu>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 10:47:36 -0600 (CST)

I just downloaded and installed this new mac-emacs and it won't launch.  I 
admit that I made a mistake--first I tried launching Emacs (before reading 
the instructions that said not to do this).  I got the standard 
launch-animation effect but no menubar.  Launching mac-emacs at least put 
up a menubar but this quickly disappeared.

I tried deleting and re-installing but got the same results with just 
launching mac-emacs.

This is on a Pismo 400 MHz with 384 MB RAM, OS X 10.1.3.  I do have Xemacs 
installed--could there be a conflict?  I also tried renaming my .emacs 
file.

Before installing mac-emacs, I had the Aqua-emacs installed, (upon which 
mac-emacs is based).  I removed this before installing mac-emacs.

David Wagner
-- 
"Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance,
men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think
about such things."
--Blaise Pascal


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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Epstopdf and the bounding box?
From: "Bob Strain" <strain at cfm.brown.edu>
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 12:28:36 -0500




On 3/2/02 11:24 AM, "Piet van Oostrum" <piet at cs.uu.nl> wrote:

>>>>>> Bob Strain <strain at cfm.brown.edu> (BS) writes:
> 
> BS> Hi,
> BS> I apologize if this issue has already been discussed, I just joined the
> BS> list.  I am recently attempting to incorporate self made .eps graphics
> into
> BS> my tex documents.  So I have been using the epstopdf command.  The
> following
> BS> is a typical exchange with the computer:
> 
> BS> -% epstopdf plot6.eps
> BS> ==> Warning: BoundingBox not found!
> 
> If there is no bounding box, it is not a proper EPS files..
> 
> BS> Then the resulting pdf plot6.pdf will be a full page sized pdf when it
> BS> should be only the size of the graphic.  This makes it very hard to use.
> BS> Could anyone suggest a solution?


> You said `self made' EPS file. Does that mean you make them by hand, or
> create them with your own program?

Sorry, I should have been more specific.  By 'self-made' I meant using
matlab with 'self made' data.

> Anyway, take care that the proper
> %%BoundingBox comment is added.

I'm not sure what you mean here.  I have used -hires and -exact to no avail.
I have tried eps and eps level 2.

> Otherwise epstopdf will not know what size your graphic is and can only
> revert to a full-page PDF.

Do you know if matlab 5.3 just does not make proper eps files?  Do you know
of better way to go?

Thanks,
Bob Strain


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Subject: TeXShop 1.16 Revisited
From: "Richard Koch" <koch at darkwing.uoregon.edu>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 10:17:58 -0800

Folks:

The release of 1.16 has not been smooth !#&&!.

If you obtained the program earlier, please get it again. The following 
glitches
are fixed:  crash on quit if you disable blank pages, magnification 
preference
ignored, arrow keys don't work in editor. Moreover, the arrow keys now 
work
in the preview window.

Dick
koch at math.uoregon.edu


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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Epstopdf and the bounding box?
From: "Joseph C. Slater" <joseph.slater at wright.edu>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 13:30:47 -0500

You are in the same situation that many of us Mac/Matlab users are in. 
You may want to start shifting over to Octave. I have, and it's not so 
bad for what I need. Some argue it's better, but I'm working on that. 
The biggest challenge is that you have to learn how to use gnuplot to 
some extent in order to print. "gset term postscript" and "gset output 
''filename.eps''" along with replot will put an existing plot in a file.

However, if you install the "unstable" gnuplot using fink (if that's 
unstable, I don't know what stable is), plotting goes to aquaterm when x 
is not running, and your plot is automatically a PDF file. There are som 
limitations to gnuplot (lack of surfaces), but that may or may not be 
important to you. Those shortcomings are being worked on some, and for 
more sophisticated plotting, some use pgplot from octave.

Summary: there is life after matlab.

Now back to today's problem:
There are two ways in matlab to make an eps.
a) print to an eps file
b) use the command:
print -deps filename
you can do eps2, epsc, and a number of other options. See help print. 
I've found better luck in the past with b), however, I would try the 
opposite of what you are trying.

Also, you don't need to command line the conversion. Just drag the eps 
file onto TeXShop and it will do it for you.

Hope this helps,
Joe
On Saturday, March 2, 2002, at 12:28  PM, Bob Strain wrote:

>
>
>
> On 3/2/02 11:24 AM, "Piet van Oostrum" <piet at cs.uu.nl> wrote:
>
>>>>>>> Bob Strain <strain at cfm.brown.edu> (BS) writes:
>>
>> BS> Hi,
>> BS> I apologize if this issue has already been discussed, I just 
>> joined the
>> BS> list.  I am recently attempting to incorporate self made .eps 
>> graphics
>> into
>> BS> my tex documents.  So I have been using the epstopdf command.  The
>> following
>> BS> is a typical exchange with the computer:
>>
>> BS> -% epstopdf plot6.eps
>> BS> ==> Warning: BoundingBox not found!
>>
>> If there is no bounding box, it is not a proper EPS files..
>>
>> BS> Then the resulting pdf plot6.pdf will be a full page sized pdf 
>> when it
>> BS> should be only the size of the graphic.  This makes it very hard 
>> to use.
>> BS> Could anyone suggest a solution?
>
>
>> You said `self made' EPS file. Does that mean you make them by hand, or
>> create them with your own program?
>
> Sorry, I should have been more specific.  By 'self-made' I meant using
> matlab with 'self made' data.
>
>> Anyway, take care that the proper
>> %%BoundingBox comment is added.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean here.  I have used -hires and -exact to no 
> avail.
> I have tried eps and eps level 2.
>
>> Otherwise epstopdf will not know what size your graphic is and can only
>> revert to a full-page PDF.
>
> Do you know if matlab 5.3 just does not make proper eps files?  Do you 
> know
> of better way to go?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob Strain
>
>
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Bug in TeXShop 1.16 (was: TeXShop 1.16)
From: "Ben Wooliscroft" <bwooliscroft at e3.net.nz>
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 07:52:39 +1300

Hi Matthias

Using TexShop 1.16 and OS 10.1.3 I have no cursor problems.

Cheers

Ben

> 
> I installed the new version, but had to discover a quite severe bug:
> 
> I am longer able to use the cursor keys in TeXShop. Instead of moving the
> cursor, the system error sound is played. Shift-Cursor, Alt-Cursor etc work
> like normal, however.
> 
> The problem appeared after I customized the tool bar, but of course this
> doesn't mean this was the reason for the problem to appear.
> 
> Trashing the prefs file didn't work (the prefs file is the texshop.plist in
> my library/preferences folder, right?)
> 
> The problem disappeared after reinstalling the 1.15 version of TeXShop.
> 
> Can anyone confirm this, or does anyone have a hint for me?
> 
> Regards,
> Matthias


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Subject: TeXShop feature requests (was: TeXShop 1.16)
From: "Matthias Damm" <m.damm at web.de>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 20:05:22 +0100


> TeXShop 1.16 is now available at

Thank you very much, especially for fixing the "empty pdf window" bug.
TeXshop is still getting better and better...

However there are still a couple of suggestions I would like to make:

- It is not possible to use bibtopic.sty with TeShop easily.

bibtopic.sty does not use the filename.bbl file but filename1.bbl,
filename2.bbl etc. to generate the different bibliographies.
TeShop just starts bibtex with filename.bbl, which is not found, of course.
I am able to bibtex these documents by starting bibtex manually in the
terminal, but of course I would prefer TeXShop to do this.

The most elegant way imho was if TeXShop would listen to the following
output from bibtopic.sty:

--snip
Package bibtopic Warning: Please (re)run BibTeX on the file(s):
(bibtopic)                filename1
(bibtopic)                filename2
(bibtopic)                and after that rerun LaTeX.
--snap

It would help as well however if one could specify the files to bibtex with
a document manually in TeXShop (this information could be stored in the
.texshop file).


- It's great that one can use an external editor now, but I would like to
use an external pdf viewer as well.
I am using hyperref, and unfortunately TeXShop's pdf viewer can neither
display nor use the links generated by hyperref, so I would like to use
Acrobat Reader instead.


- After using several files which belong to the same tex project, you
usually have a lot of "maindocument console" and maindocument.pdf windows
open. I would prefer TeXShop to close older versions of these windows, so
that you always have only one console and one .pdf open at one time.


- I don't know if this is possible, but a terrific feature was if the
spellchecker would use the language specified with \selectlanguage (even if
more than one language is used in a document).


Well, that's all for the moment...

Thanks to all people involved for developing this fantastic application!

Best regards,
Matthias
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Epstopdf and the bounding box?
From: "Peter Erwin" <erwin at ll.iac.es>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 19:33:04 +0000

>On 3/2/02 11:24 AM, "Piet van Oostrum" <piet at cs.uu.nl> wrote:
>
>>>>>>>  Bob Strain <strain at cfm.brown.edu> (BS) writes:

[snip]

>>  BS> is a typical exchange with the computer:
>>
>>  BS> -% epstopdf plot6.eps
>>  BS> ==> Warning: BoundingBox not found!
>>
>>  If there is no bounding box, it is not a proper EPS files..

[snip]

>>  Anyway, take care that the proper
>>  %%BoundingBox comment is added.
>
>I'm not sure what you mean here.  I have used -hires and -exact to no avail.
>I have tried eps and eps level 2.

A proper EPS file has a line very near the top which says something like:

%%BoundingBox: 79 225 545 573

(the actual numbers will vary, but there should be four of them)

Try opening your file in a text editor, or just typing "more plot6.eps"
at the command-line prompt, to see if that line is indeed there.

It sounds like your matlab-generated files don't have proper bounding
boxes (which basically describe what part of the full PostScript page is
actually used by the figure).

One possible solution is to try the "ps2epsi" program, which is part of
Ghostscript (and thus should be installed if you installed a Ghostscript
package).  E.g.,

prompt% ps2epsi plot6.eps plot6_new.eps

(or something like that)

and see whether epstopdf like that better...

cheers,

Peter
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Epstopdf and the bounding box?
From: "Gerben Wierda" <sherlock at rna.nl>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 22:43:31 +0100

On Saturday, March 2, 2002, at 04:57 , Bob Strain wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I apologize if this issue has already been discussed, I just joined the
> list.  I am recently attempting to incorporate self made .eps graphics 
> into
> my tex documents.  So I have been using the epstopdf command.  The 
> following
> is a typical exchange with the computer:
>
> -% epstopdf plot6.eps
> ==> Warning: BoundingBox not found!

This may depend on the version of epstopdf. If you have an older version 
it might not handle Mac-style line endings.

epstopdf --version

gives you the version. If you have a 'gw' version you have a Mac-eol 
aware version.

G


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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] [ANN] LaTeX enhanced mac-emacs (v. 1.2)
From: "Paolo Ghirardato" <paolo at hss.caltech.edu>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 13:53:29 -0800

>I've just uploaded a new release of the LeTeX enhanced mac-emacs. It
>has a simplified installer (just copy the two applications to the
>/Applications folder), thanks to the new features of Applescript
>introduced in 10.1.3. Get it (and send comments) from
>http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~franconi/mac-emacs/

I just followed the instructions to install, but when I double-click 
the mac-emacs app, it seems to start but then quits after an instant. 
Am I doing something wrong?
paolo
-- 
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Paolo Ghirardato
Division of the Humanities                      +1 (626) 395-4094 tel   
and Social Sciences, 228-77                     +1 (626) 405-9841 fax
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125, U.S.A.             

E-mail: paolo at hss.caltech.edu
URL: http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~paolo/ghiro.html
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Subject: A french dictionary for TeXShop
From: "Jerome Dubois" <jer_dubois at libertysurf.fr>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 22:59:09 +0100

Hi everyone,

A little question about TeXShop : How to change the "Spelling", I have 
just the English dictionary and I want a French dictionary, where I can 
found it ?

Thanks,
Jerome


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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Epstopdf and the bounding box?
From: "Gerben Wierda" <sherlock at rna.nl>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 23:57:09 +0100

On Saturday, March 2, 2002, at 11:22 , Bob Strain wrote:

> This is the output I get:
>
> home% epstopdf --version
> Unknown option: version
> EPSTOPDF 2.6, 2000/11/05 - Copyright 1998,1999,2000 by Sebastian Rahtz 
> et
> al.

A rather old version which cannot handle Mac eol line endings. What TeX 
distribution do you use? Maybe you should get a newer version.

G


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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] [ANN] LaTeX enhanced mac-emacs (v. 1.2)
From: "Joseph C. Slater" <joseph.slater at wright.edu>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 18:48:49 -0500

I got the same thing.
Joe
On Saturday, March 2, 2002, at 04:53  PM, Paolo Ghirardato wrote:

>> I've just uploaded a new release of the LeTeX enhanced mac-emacs. It
>> has a simplified installer (just copy the two applications to the
>> /Applications folder), thanks to the new features of Applescript
>> introduced in 10.1.3. Get it (and send comments) from
>> http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~franconi/mac-emacs/
>
> I just followed the instructions to install, but when I double-click 
> the mac-emacs app, it seems to start but then quits after an instant. 
> Am I doing something wrong?
> paolo
> -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Paolo Ghirardato
> Division of the Humanities                      +1 (626) 395-4094 tel   
> and Social Sciences, 228-77                     +1 (626) 405-9841 fax
> California Institute of Technology
> Pasadena, CA 91125, U.S.A.
> E-mail: paolo at hss.caltech.edu
> URL: http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~paolo/ghiro.html
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>
>
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Epstopdf and the bounding box?
From: "Bob Strain" <strain at e151.cfm.brown.edu>
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 18:58:16 -0500

On 3/2/02 5:57 PM, "Gerben Wierda" <sherlock at rna.nl> wrote:

> On Saturday, March 2, 2002, at 11:22 , Bob Strain wrote:
> 
>> This is the output I get:
>> 
>> home% epstopdf --version
>> Unknown option: version
>> EPSTOPDF 2.6, 2000/11/05 - Copyright 1998,1999,2000 by Sebastian Rahtz
>> et
>> al.
> 
> A rather old version which cannot handle Mac eol line endings. What TeX
> distribution do you use? Maybe you should get a newer version.
> 
> G

It works like a charm now.  THANKS!


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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] A french dictionary for TeXShop
From: "William McCallum" <mccallumwilliam at qwest.net>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 17:17:40 -0700

If you are using CocoAspell, you can get dictionaries for many 
languages, including French, from

http://homepage.mac.com/leuski/cocoaspell/dictionaries.html

There are installation instructions there too. After installation your 
Spelling dialogue box will have a pop-up menu with a choice of 
dictionaries.

I did this when writing an email to a French colleague. Now Mail.app and 
TeXShop think French should be my default dictionary. I'm flattered, but 
I did have to turn off "Check Spelling as You Type".
I haven't yet figured out how to reorder the priority in the pop-up menu.

Regards,
		Bill McCallum

On Saturday, March 2, 2002, at 02:59  PM, Jerome Dubois wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> A little question about TeXShop : How to change the "Spelling", I have 
> just the English dictionary and I want a French dictionary, where I can 
> found it ?
>
> Thanks,
> Jerome


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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] [ANN] LaTeX enhanced mac-emacs (v. 1.2)
From: "Rick Zaccone" <zaccone at bucknell.edu>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 19:30:10 -0500 (EST)

>This Emacs is built on top of the mac-emacs.sourceforge.net emacs-21.1
>distribution (for MacOSX), enhanced with fully customisable LaTeX
>editing environment based on auctex and other packages. This installer
>includes everything (but not tetex and ghostview); there is no need to
>have X11 installed. From mac-emacs, you can launch directly any latex
>process or any mac application (like MacGhostview, Acrobat Reader,
>TexShop, OzTeX, etc).

If you're an emacs user, you should definitely take a look at this!  I
think it's great.

Rick



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