[OS X TeX] Begining in Mac-TeX

[Othon Branco]

it works! It works!

Thank you very much! Thank you all!

Sorry, I'm happy like a child. I think I'm gonna take a beer now :-) ehehehe

[ ]`s

Othon

P.S.: Is there some advantage in letrine x dropping? More features,
more beautiful?



On 4/5/07, Alan Munn <amunn at msu.edu> wrote:
> At 10:43 AM -0300 4/5/07, Othon Branco wrote:
> >On 4/4/07, Daniel Becker <daniel.becker at uni-rostock.de> wrote:
> >  Download the latest version of TeXShop
> >>There is also now an alternative and much easier way to go:
> >>
> >>www.tug.org/mactex/
> >>
> >>-> MacTeX
> >>-> MacTeXtras
> >>
> >
> >Well, I unistalled all and installed MacTex+MacTeXtras.
> >
> >But I still have problems with dropping package. It appears installed
> >but your command \dropping{2}{1\,}texttexttextexxxxcxcxxcxxxcxxxx
> >doesn'n works.
>
>
> [errors snipped]
>
> The dropping package is pretty old and is dependent on dvips. It
> won't work with pdlatex (which is the default typesetting mode for
> TeXShop.)
>
> For older files that you have which use the package, you should
> typeset them using TeX and Ghostscript.  The easiest way to do this
> is to put the following as the first line of your file:
>
> %%!TEX TS-program = latex
>
> If you are creating new documents and want the effects of dropping,
> you should use the lettrine package instead.
>
> (In a terminal window, type "texdoc lettrine" to see the documentation.)
>
> Alan
>
> --
> Alan Munn
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