[OS X TeX] Re: MacOSX-TeX Digest #1760 - 06/13/06
Ben Tipping
btipping at fas.harvard.edu
Sun Jun 18 10:08:16 EDT 2006
I will be out of my office from 8 June 2006 to 20 June 2006 inclusive.
On Jun 13, 2006, at 8:00 PM, "TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List"
<MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
> MacOSX-TeX Digest #1760 - Tuesday, June 13, 2006
>
> TeXShop 2.10beta2
> by "Richard Koch" <koch at math.uoregon.edu>
> Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop 2.10beta2
> by "George Gratzer" <gratzer at ms.umanitoba.ca>
> Need applescript
> by "George Gratzer" <gratzer at ms.umanitoba.ca>
> Re: [OS X TeX] still freezing
> by "Alex Hamann"
> <Alexander.Hamann at stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de>
> Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop 2.10beta2
> by "Doaitse Swierstra" <doaitse at cs.uu.nl>
> vertical positioning within a cell of a table
> by "Alain Schremmer" <Schremmer.Alain at gmail.com>
> Re: [OS X TeX] vertical positioning within a cell of a table
> by "Christopher O'Brien" <cjo123 at gmail.com>
> Re: [OS X TeX] vertical positioning within a cell of a table
> by "Nathan Sanders" <Nathan.Sanders at williams.edu>
> Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop 2.10beta2
> by "Herbert Schulz" <herbs at wideopenwest.com>
> Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop 2.10beta2
> by "Franck Pastor" <pastor at fusl.ac.be>
> Re: [OS X TeX] vertical positioning within a cell of a table
> by "Alain Schremmer" <Schremmer.Alain at gmail.com>
> Re: [OS X TeX] TeXniscope and CMR super problem
> by "Massimiliano Gubinelli" <mgubi at mac.com>
> Re: [OS X TeX] vertical positioning within a cell of a table
> by "Alain Schremmer" <Schremmer.Alain at gmail.com>
> Re: [OS X TeX] vertical positioning within a cell of a table
> by "Peter Dyballa" <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE>
> Re: [OS X TeX] Need applescript
> by "Maarten Sneep" <maarten.sneep at xs4all.nl>
> Re: [OS X TeX] Need applescript
> by "Themis Matsoukas" <matsoukas at psu.edu>
> Re: [OS X TeX] Need applescript
> by "Peter Dyballa" <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: TeXShop 2.10beta2
> From: "Richard Koch" <koch at math.uoregon.edu>
> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:03:11 -0700
>
> Folks,
>
> We have put a second beta of version 2.10 on
>
> www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop
>
> Applescript was broken in the original beta but is fixed here; the
> "OK" and "Cancel"
> buttons in some dialogs did not close the dialog but do now, and a
> few other
> bugs listed on the web page have been fixed.
>
> Dick
> koch at math.uoregon.edu
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop 2.10beta2
> From: "George Gratzer" <gratzer at ms.umanitoba.ca>
> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:31:49 -0500
>
> Dick,
>
> I guess my write up fell by the wayside. If you want to use it in the
> future, it should be updated with the name of the newer dmg file name.
>
> GG
>
>
> On Jun 12, 2006, at 10:03 PM, Richard Koch wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> We have put a second beta of version 2.10 on
>>
>> www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop
>>
>> Applescript was broken in the original beta but is fixed here; the
>> "OK" and "Cancel"
>> buttons in some dialogs did not close the dialog but do now, and a
>> few other
>> bugs listed on the web page have been fixed.
>>
>> Dick
>> koch at math.uoregon.edu
>>
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>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Need applescript
> From: "George Gratzer" <gratzer at ms.umanitoba.ca>
> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:36:39 -0500
>
> I would need an applescript that does the following:
>
> I have a folder, open, the frontmost folder, say called slim.
>
> In the folder, there is a pdf file, open, say on page 7.
>
> The applescript should delete pages 1 - 6 and 8 - end of slim.pdf, so
> slim.pdf is only one page, the old page 7.
>
> Can somebody help?
>
> GG
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] still freezing
> From: "Alex Hamann" <Alexander.Hamann at stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de>
> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:20:31 +0200
>
>
> I am very sorry about the FALSE ALARM. Managed to update everything
> today and apparently the problems are local and not related to iI
> which works wonderfully.
>
> Cheers
>
> Alex
>
>
>
> On 08.06.2006, at 16:39, Alex Hamann wrote:
>
>> Hey everybody,
>>
>> I hope I am wrong but i-Installer caused my system (iBook G4) to
>> freeze again. I had updated II without any problems and then wanted
>> to update my tex. However the system freezes everytime halfway
>> though the installation process. I had not experienced any kind of
>> similar problems before and have not changed anything in my
>> updating process compared to earlier updates that worked fine. Is
>> anybody else experiencing this problem as well or could it be a
>> specific problem on my Mac?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alex
>>
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>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop 2.10beta2
> From: "Doaitse Swierstra" <doaitse at cs.uu.nl>
> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:05:39 +0200
>
> I have a question that I have asked a long time ago, but at that
> time I did not get a reaction, so I try again.
>
> Most of the texts I am producing are both Haskell programs, and are
> to be pre-processed by a program called lhs2TeX, which nicely formats
> the Haskell code in my texts (thus lhs2TeX normally accepts .lhs
> files and produces .tex files). Now it is the case that the Haskell
> compilers have knowledge of the extension .lhs (which stands for
> Literate Haskell Script) so I should like to give my files that
> extension.
>
> Unfortunately TeXshop only knows about a limited set of extensions,
> so I am now abusing the .ltx extension with some "personal scripts"
> to move and copy files. It would be much nicer however if I were
> somehow able to tell TeXShop that .lhs files are to be treated as TeX
> sources, and that a specific script should be used for formatting them.
>
> I have been looking to see whether something like this could be done
> through the preferences, but unfortunately I could not find a way to
> do so.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Doaitse Swierstra
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: vertical positioning within a cell of a table
> From: "Alain Schremmer" <Schremmer.Alain at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:45:21 -0400
>
> Here is a simple case
>
> Say I have a table with 1 row and 2 columns.
> In the first column I have a tall graphics and in the second column I
> have text.
>
> The graphic and the text come out bottom-aligned.
> How do I get, say, at least a top-alignment or a center alignment?
>
> One way is to use multirow with the optional positioning parameter
> vmove
> and the text in the first row of the second column with either enough
> empty rows in the second column or \vspace{xmm} below the table for the
> graphic not to overlay whatever is below the table. (Companion 2ed,
> p274)
>
> It works (by vmoving the graphic in the first column!) but seems to me
> rather clunky.
>
> Is that really all there is? (\vspace{xmm} after the text doesn't have
> the effect I would have expected.)
>
> Regards
> --schremmer
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] vertical positioning within a cell of a table
> From: "Christopher O'Brien" <cjo123 at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:59:35 -0400
>
> Alain,
> I have had success with simply using a {center} environment inside
> table cells.
>
> You can also use minipage environments inside a float environment to
> place figures/text side by side.
>
> You may also want to see the document:
> "Using Imported Graphics in LATEX and pdfLATEX"
> Keith Reckdahl
> <epslatex at yahoo dot com >
>
> Regards,
> Chris
> PSU ESM
>
> On Jun 13, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
>> Here is a simple case
>>
>> Say I have a table with 1 row and 2 columns.
>> In the first column I have a tall graphics and in the second column
>> I have text.
>> The graphic and the text come out bottom-aligned.
>> How do I get, say, at least a top-alignment or a center alignment?
>>
>> One way is to use multirow with the optional positioning parameter
>> vmove and the text in the first row of the second column with
>> either enough empty rows in the second column or \vspace{xmm} below
>> the table for the graphic not to overlay whatever is below the
>> table. (Companion 2ed, p274)
>>
>> It works (by vmoving the graphic in the first column!) but seems to
>> me rather clunky.
>>
>> Is that really all there is? (\vspace{xmm} after the text doesn't
>> have the effect I would have expected.)
>>
>> Regards
>> --schremmer
>>
>>
>> ------------------------- Info --------------------------
>> Mac-TeX Website: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/
>> & FAQ: http://latex.yauh.de/faq/
>> TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
>> List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/
>>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] vertical positioning within a cell of a table
> From: "Nathan Sanders" <Nathan.Sanders at williams.edu>
> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:08:19 -0400
>
> Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
>> The graphic and the text come out bottom-aligned.
>> How do I get, say, at least a top-alignment or a center alignment?
>
> Chris's suggestion of the minipage environment seems to work well:
>
> \begin{tabular}{cl}
>
> \begin{minipage}{2in}
> \includegraphics[height=2in,width=2in]{test.eps}
> \end{minipage}
>
> &Here is a single line.
>
> \end{tabular}
>
> Nathan
>
> --
> Nathan Sanders
> Linguistics Program
> Williams College
> http://wso.williams.edu/~nsanders/
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop 2.10beta2
> From: "Herbert Schulz" <herbs at wideopenwest.com>
> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:12:39 -0500
>
>
> On Jun 12, 2006, at 10:03 PM, Richard Koch wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> We have put a second beta of version 2.10 on
>>
>> www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop
>>
>> Applescript was broken in the original beta but is fixed here; the
>> "OK" and "Cancel"
>> buttons in some dialogs did not close the dialog but do now, and a
>> few other
>> bugs listed on the web page have been fixed.
>>
>> Dick
>> koch at math.uoregon.edu
>
> Howdy,
>
> Nice and speedy. Applescript seems to be working now. Still has the
> ``creeping pdf'' problem; see my comments on that bug. Will continue
> to test.
>
> In terms of Applescript... is there a command that will tell TeXShop
> to re-center the view of the document so that the cursor remains in
> view?
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop 2.10beta2
> From: "Franck Pastor" <pastor at fusl.ac.be>
> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:18:56 +0200
>
>
> Le 13-juin-06 à 05:03, Richard Koch a écrit :
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> We have put a second beta of version 2.10 on
>>
>> www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop
>>
>> Applescript was broken in the original beta but is fixed here; the
>> "OK" and "Cancel"
>> buttons in some dialogs did not close the dialog but do now, and a
>> few other
>> bugs listed on the web page have been fixed.
>>
>> Dick
>> koch at math.uoregon.edu
>
> Applescript seems to work well now, indeed.
>
> Another bug(?) I noticed that the beautiful "TeXShop design" for the
> icon of the pdf files (if you use TeXShop as the default viewer) has
> disappeared. Now it's only the basic ugly grey icon...
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] vertical positioning within a cell of a table
> From: "Alain Schremmer" <Schremmer.Alain at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:33:46 -0400
>
> Nathan Sanders wrote:
>
>> Alain Schremmer wrote:
>>
>>> The graphic and the text come out bottom-aligned.
>>> How do I get, say, at least a top-alignment or a center alignment?
>>
>>
>> Chris's suggestion of the minipage environment seems to work well:
>>
>> \begin{tabular}{cl}
>>
>> \begin{minipage}{2in}
>> \includegraphics[height=2in,width=2in]{test.eps}
>> \end{minipage}
>>
>> &Here is a single line.
>>
>> \end{tabular}
>
> That's it!
> I didn't even put in [height=2in,width=2in]
> I will study minipages and I will read the document:
> "Using Imported Graphics in LATEX and pdfLATEX"
> later on.
>
> Grateful regards.
> --schremmer
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXniscope and CMR super problem
> From: "Massimiliano Gubinelli" <mgubi at mac.com>
> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:37:14 +0200
>
> Hi,
> could you send me privately the file? I do not have any idea of the
> problem but it is strange that TeXshop get it right. Both programs
> use the same PDF library.
>
> best,
> Massimiliano Gubinelli
>
> On 9 Jun 2006, at 20:45, Alain Matthes wrote:
>
>> hello:)
>>
>> I've made a .pdf file with pdflatex and with the CMR super.
>>
>> The result is fine with Texshop and Acrobat reader but it's
>> very bad with TeXniscope.
>>
>> No problem with the same file but with lmodern or utopia, do you
>> an idea of the problem ?
>>
>> With acrobat, properties of the document :
>>
>> CMMI10 CMMI8 CMR10 CMR8 type 1 encodage : personnalisée (utf8)
>>
>> Alain Matthes------------------------- Info --------------------------
>> Mac-TeX Website: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/
>> & FAQ: http://latex.yauh.de/faq/
>> TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
>> List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/
>>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] vertical positioning within a cell of a table
> From: "Alain Schremmer" <Schremmer.Alain at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:39:09 -0400
>
> Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
>> Nathan Sanders wrote:
>>
>>> Alain Schremmer wrote:
>>>
>>>> The graphic and the text come out bottom-aligned.
>>>> How do I get, say, at least a top-alignment or a center alignment?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Chris's suggestion of the minipage environment seems to work well:
>>>
>>> \begin{tabular}{cl}
>>>
>>> \begin{minipage}{2in}
>>> \includegraphics[height=2in,width=2in]{test.eps}
>>> \end{minipage}
>>>
>>> &Here is a single line.
>>>
>>> \end{tabular}
>>
>>
>> That's it!
>> I didn't even put in [height=2in,width=2in]
>
> Er … not quite. The picture and the text are center-aligned. How do I
> control the alignment? Is it in the document "Using Imported Graphics
> in
> LATEX and pdfLATEX" ?
>
> Regards
> --schremmer
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] vertical positioning within a cell of a table
> From: "Peter Dyballa" <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE>
> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:48:50 +0200
>
>
> Am 13.06.2006 um 20:39 schrieb Alain Schremmer:
>
>> The picture and the text are center-aligned.
>
> You cannot judge this -- on the basis of two cells in one row. Add a
> new row with a different text length and the same picture of
> different length, now changing positions in the row! And don't forget
> the second minipage's width ...
>
>> How do I control the alignment?
>
>
> Presuming that the picture is higher than the line of text, then the
> text is vertically centre-aligned, as so often in TeX. You can use an
> invisible (one dimension nulled) ruler with maybe a lift (\rule[<some
> amount>]{width}{height}) to position the text, or \raisebox{<by some
> amount>}{the object} ...
>
> Horizontally the cells get aligned by the table's head: {cl}. Left
> cell is centred, right cell is flushright or left-aligned. You can
> make it {|c|l|} to see vertical 'margin lines.' \hline would add
> horizontal 'margin lines.'
>
> --
> Greetings
>
> Pete
>
> Some day we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any
> direction.
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Need applescript
> From: "Maarten Sneep" <maarten.sneep at xs4all.nl>
> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:54:52 +0200
>
> On 13 Jun 2006, at 7:36, George Gratzer wrote:
>
>> I would need an applescript that does the following:
>>
>> I have a folder, open, the frontmost folder, say called slim.
>>
>> In the folder, there is a pdf file, open, say on page 7.
>>
>> The applescript should delete pages 1 - 6 and 8 - end of slim.pdf,
>> so slim.pdf is only one page, the old page 7.
>
> Impossible: none of the PDF viewers will report to you which pdf is
> open, or which page it is showing.
>
>> Can somebody help?
>
> Sorry,
>
> Maarten
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Need applescript
> From: "Themis Matsoukas" <matsoukas at psu.edu>
> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:17:24 -0400
>
> On Jun 13, 2006, at 4:54 PM, Maarten Sneep wrote:
>
>> On 13 Jun 2006, at 7:36, George Gratzer wrote:
>>
>>> I would need an applescript that does the following:
>>>
>>> I have a folder, open, the frontmost folder, say called slim.
>>>
>>> In the folder, there is a pdf file, open, say on page 7.
>>>
>>> The applescript should delete pages 1 - 6 and 8 - end of slim.pdf,
>>> so slim.pdf is only one page, the old page 7.
>>
>> Impossible: none of the PDF viewers will report to you which pdf is
>> open, or which page it is showing.
>>
>>> Can somebody help?
>
> A naive suggestion - why not just print page 7 into a pdf file?
>
> Themis
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Need applescript
> From: "Peter Dyballa" <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE>
> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:17:59 +0200
>
>
> Am 13.06.2006 um 07:36 schrieb George Gratzer:
>
>> The applescript should delete pages 1 - 6 and 8 - end of slim.pdf,
>> so slim.pdf is only one page, the old page 7.
>
> ConTeXt's texexec might handle what you want:
>
> texexec --help | grep -i pdf | grep -v =
> --pdf produce PDF directly using pdf(e)tex
> --pdfarrange arrange pdf pages
> --pdfcombine combine pages to one page
> --pdfcopy scale pages down/up
> --pdfselect select pdf pages
> --screensaver turn graphic file into a (pdf) full screen
> file
>
> Cascading texexec might enable you to extract these and those pages
> and combine them to a new document, or extract just the page you're
> on -- wouldn't it be easier to print just this page into a PDF file?
> This could be a job for Automator ...
>
> --
> Greetings
>
> Pete
>
> Remember: use logout to logout.
>
>
>
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