[OS X TeX] Fonts and PSNFSS
Alain Schremmer
Schremmer.Alain at verizon.net
Sat Jun 12 22:51:34 EDT 2004
I am so obsessed with this thing that I will take up your time and respond.
(1) The sw issue. I am not going to do anything about it. You have
instilled the fear of the Godesses in me.
(2) The person who gave me the file had also given me a pdf which I now
realize is what I had seen and misled me into thinking that /I /had
typeset it.
(a) I searched for dvips and found
\usepackage[colorlinks=true,linkcolor=red, pdftitle={linear algebra
book}, pdfauthor={david santos}, bookmarksopen, _dvips]{hyperref_}
\usepackage[_dvips]{graphicx_}
\usepackage[usenames,_dvipsnames]{pstcol_}
where the underline came from the Find Panel.
(b) I changed the TeXshop Typesetting preference to TeX + Ghostscript
and got
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{pstcol}
! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> ...\string \color @white\endcsname \@@
}
l.41 \psset at bordercolor{white}
?
However, I got that as a /copy/. Before I selected it it was the same
!Undefined control sequence <recently read> \c at lor@to at ps
1.41 \psset at bordercolor(white)
?
as before. (I don't understand why the console reacts to selection.)
(c) I replaced dvips by pdftex one at a time with the same as in (b)
except it did not like pdftexnames.
Then I replaced dvips by pdftex in the first two and erased dvipsnames
in the third with the same except that the line
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{pstcol}
had disappeared.
(d) Find Panel found no occurrence of [textures], [truetex] or [vtex],
changebar
(e) pstricks is there all right.
Well, as I said, at this point it is really only an obsession so, again,
leave it alone or else I will get back to you.
Very gratefully,
--schremmer
P.S. I got your 4.35 PM about an hour later than your 4.49 PM about
which I have not yet done anything. (I am trying to get ahead in my book)
Bruno Voisin wrote:
> Well, that's not an easy one to debug, unless you've got some
> experience with LaTeX already! LaTeX's error message are often
> unhelpful, as they point to a line where the error becomes blatant,
> even if the error was actually created by another instruction several
> lines earlier.
>
> I think the most likely cause for what you experienced is that you
> compiled in pdfTeX mode a document that included the line:
>
> \usepackage[dvips]{graphics}
>
> or
>
> \usepackage[dvips]{color}
>
> or has a [dvips] option somewhere (or an option corresponding to
> another driver than [pdftex], like [textures], [truetex] or [vtex]).
>
> How to debug this: I used BBEdit to do a multifile search for
> "c at lor@to at ps" over the whole directory
> /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/, it returned the name of
> several files inside
> /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/, including in
> particular dvips.def, textures.def, etc.
>
> It may also be that your document uses the changebar package, and that
> this package uses the option [dvips] by default. Or that it uses the
> pstricks package, since searching for "psset at bordercolor" returns only
> the file
> /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/pstcol.sty which
> is said to provide "PSTricks color colompatibility".
>
> How to solve the problem: replace the [dvips] option by [pdftex], or
> simply erases it (I think TeXShop has a way of figuring out by itself
> which option to use), or typeset in TeX + Ghostscript mode instead of
> pdfTeX. In case your document uses the pstricks package, then the TeX
> + GhostScript mode is the only solution.
>
> Generally if the error message mentions a command with "ps" in its
> name, it's reasonable to try the TeX + Ghostscript mode and see
> whether it cures things.
>
> [...]
>
> Bruno Voisin
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