[OS X TeX] Carbon Emacs getting AUCTeX

[Norman Gall]

On 21-Feb-05, at 15:13, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 21.02.2005 um 20:58 schrieb Norman Gall:
>
>> but the compiler also failed to point aspell at the right directory 
>> for its libraries. aspell thus quits with an error. I can't even get 
>> /sw/bin/aspell to load in it without an error.
>
> One thing I've found is that the new Japanese Carbon Emacs comes 
> without aspell dictionaries. If your own /sw/bin/aspell programme 
> fails, there's another one in 
> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin.
>

That one looks for libraries on /Volumes/Emacs

> To make AUCTeX work you'll need to change in 
> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/site-lisp/tex-site.el two 
> variables. Here are the corrected settings:
>
> line #55: (defvar TeX-lisp-directory 
> "/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/site-lisp/auctex"
> line #67: (defcustom TeX-auto-global 
> "/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/var/auctex/"
>
> Aspell: at line #154: (setq ispell-program-name "aspell") is set. 
> Maybe it helps to set it to: (setq ispell-program-name 
> "/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/aspell").

It gags on that...

> For me it helped to make line #154 a comment and ispell worked very 
> fine: it now was even able to recognise 'sérifs' as a normal word 
> without UTF-8 characters!
>

!!! I _am_ going to give ispell a chance now.

> All path names starting with "/Applications/Emacs.app" assume that 
> you've installed that Emacs simply by dragging it in your Applications 
> folder. If you did it otherwise you'd need to adapt that path name.
>

Cheers,
ng

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