[OS X TeX] Installing two front ends?

[Joseph Slater]

On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 11:25  AM, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:

>
> 	Hello everybody, I'm new to the list and before I post any question 
> or say anything else I would like to take a moment ang give my warmest 
> appreciation to the people who have put together such grate packages 
> as teTeX on OS X and the great myriad of front ends to let us read our 
> pdf's in a friendly environment. Included in my words is also a word 
> of gratitude to the people who take the time and offer the resources 
> to maintain this list, a great tool for spreading knowledge. Thank you 
> so much all of you, really, my best to you all!
>
> 	Now to my question, a very simple one to start with. Being a somewhat 
> beginner TeX user on the Linux platform I grew used to dvi files but 
> realized they are not used in Mac OS X.

Not true. They depend on your preference. You can use traditional 
latex->dvi->ps->pdf, or pdflatex (replace latex with your favorite 
other if necessary).

> I personally have no problems with pdf's, in fact I think they are 
> easier to handle, but I may encounter a situation where a friend or 
> colleague sends me dvi output without the source.

Open the dvi in TeXShop or iTeXMac and it will be converted to pdf (as 
above). What's really happening is that they just call dvipdf. You can 
do this yourself from the command line.

> I have TeXShop installed as teTeX front end so I cannot handle dvi's 
> naturally but I found out that Thomas Kiffe's tools 
> (http://www.kiffe.com/textools.html) have a real dvi viewer for Mac OS 
> X. So what I wanted to ask is if it is possible to have two teTeX 
> front ends installed without generating any conflict; that would allow 
> me to read any kind of TeX output.

Have as many front ends are you like. The biggest issue is engines. 
They can conflict with one another.

>
> 	Thanks again to all who make TeX on Mac OS X possible and to those 
> who take the time to read such a simple question and, even more, reply 
> to it.

You're welcome. I'm sure you can answer questions for some of us in the 
future.
Joe

>
> 	My best to all. Sincerely,...
>
>
> 		Juan.
>
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