[OS X TeX] newbie question on fonts motivated by LaTeXiT

[dan at geer.org]

Alan Munn writes:
-+---------------
 | At 3:21 PM -0400 10/26/07, dan at geer.org wrote:
 | >[travails of TeX installation snipped]
 | >
 | >7. Erased the old LaTeXiT as I now have two of them,
 | >retaining the one under /usr/texbin that came in
 | >with  step #5
 | 
 | This may just be mis-described, but LaTeXit resides within the TeX 
 | folder of your Applications folder.  It's not in /usr/texbin (which 
 | points to the root of the whole TeX distribution currently active.)

You are correct.  I've been wandering around a good
bit and evidently got lost.  LaTeXiT is in the
/Applications/TeX folder.  I did, though, delete
/Applications/LaTeXiT as I did not think it wise
to have two of them.


 | >
 | >8. Find that nothing has changed, i.e., still at
 | >step #2 with great cascades of errors unless these
 | >directives (from my otherwise ancient preamble) are
 | >destroyed
 | >
 | >   \usepackage{fontspec,xunicode}
 | >   \setromanfont{Palatino}
 | >   \setmathrm{Palatino}
 | >   \fontspec{Palatino}
 | >
 | 
 | This looks like you're using xelatex.  Did you check in the 
 | preferences of LaTeXit under Composition --> Behaviour that xelatex 
 | is the default behaviour?

Ah, my parsing error.  I understood Preferences>Composition
to be asking me to set what each of those three things was
supposed to do, not which of the three I wanted to use.
(Sort of underscored by the MacTeX instructions to click
each radio button in succession and reset the corresponding
lines, which I did but that left the last button, latex+dvipdf,
as the one highlighted.)

So, I check xelatex, leave in my font directives, and
use as input simply "1<2" -- and things improve to where
now get only one error

  unexpected error, please see "LaTeX > Display last log"

which is reproduced below.

Forgive me my naievete', and thank you for your assistance.

--dan


Source :
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{color}\color[rgb]{0.251,0.251,0.251} %used for font color
\usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amssymb} %maths
\usepackage{amsmath} %maths
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage{fontspec,xunicode}
\setromanfont{Palatino}
\setmathrm{Palatino}
\fontspec{Palatino}
\pagestyle{empty} \begin{document}$\displaystyle
\color[rgb]{0.251,0.251,0.251}1<2
$
\end{document}

--------------- processing xelatex ---------------
cd /private/tmp/501/TemporaryItems/latexit-1.14.4 && /usr/texbin/xelatex
-file-line-error -interaction nonstopmode
/private/tmp/501/TemporaryItems/latexit-1.14.4/latexit-1.tex
1>|/private/tmp/501/TemporaryItems/latexit-1.14.4/latexit-1.err
2>|/private/tmp/501/TemporaryItems/latexit-1.14.4/latexit-1.err
sh: line 1: xdv2pdf: command not found
996 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 file:line:error style messages enabled.
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(/private/tmp/501/TemporaryItems/latexit-1.14.4/latexit-1.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax,
dumylang, noh
yphenation, arabic, basque, bulgarian, coptic, welsh, czech, slovak,
german, ng
erman, danish, esperanto, spanish, catalan, galician, estonian, farsi,
finnish,
 french, greek, monogreek, ancientgreek, croatian, hungarian,
interlingua, ibyc
us, indonesian, icelandic, italian, latin, mongolian, dutch, norsk,
polish, por
tuguese, pinyin, romanian, russian, slovenian, uppersorbian, serbian,
swedish, 
turkish, ukenglish, ukrainian, loaded.
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/color.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/tex/latex/config/color.cfg)
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/graphics/xetex.def))
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/applemac.def))
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/amssymb.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/amsfonts.sty))
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsmath.sty
For additional information on amsmath, use the `?' option.
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amstext.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsgen.sty))
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsbsy.sty)
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsopn.sty))
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/latexsym.sty)
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty)
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/calc.sty)
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.tex
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xkeyval/keyval.tex)))
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/lm/lmodern.sty)
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/euenc/eu1enc.def)
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/euenc/lm/eu1lmr.fd))
fontspec.cfg loaded.
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.cfg))
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xunicode/xunicode.sty)
No file latexit-1.aux.
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/lm/omllmm.fd)
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/lm/omslmsy.fd)
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/lm/omxlmex.fd)
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsa.fd)
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsb.fd)
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ulasy.fd) [1]
(./latexit-1.aux)
--------------- error while processing xelatex ---------------


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