[OS X TeX] A few questions

[Constantinos Antoniou]

Nathan,

On 4 Αυγ 2004, at 11:16 πμ, nathan.sidoli at utoronto.ca wrote:

> Hello All --
>
> I've just set up teTeX on a G4 powerbook. I installed Wierda's dist and
> moved all my LaTeX files etc over from my linux machine.
>
> I like to write in emacs and view the .dvi as I go, only converting to
> .pdf at the end. Carbon Emacs looks nice but it doesn't act the way I
> expect so it looks like I'll just run emacs in the apple terminal.
>
> I have a few questions about the way the apple term works.
>
> 1) Is there some way I can get things to open up suspended in a 
> separate
> window as with most linux dists? ie:
>
> emacs &
>
> should pop up a second window running emacs. In fact this doesn't work 
> in
> the X11 xterm either.
>

I do not think that this is possible with the bundled emacs (this is a 
nox version).

However, you can easily install a full-blown emacs (along with 
thousands of other "linux" apps) through fink (http://fink.sf.net)

HTH

Costas


>
> 2) Can I run xdvi from the apple term? I get
>
> Error: Can't open display:
>
> It would be nice to be able to run the view command (C-c C-v) in 
> emacs. I
> can run xdvi from the X11 xterm but this is ad hoc.
>
>
> 3) What is the best way to add paths to the X11 xterm. When I put them 
> in
> my .cshrc file they get added twice.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Nathan
>
>
>
>
>
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Constantinos Antoniou
Ph.D. Candidate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Intelligent Transportation Systems Program
77 Massachusetts Ave., NE20-208, Cambridge, MA 02139
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