[OS X TeX] LatexIt 1.15.0 and MacTex errors

[Jan Anderssen]

Hi.

> Has anyone informed the LatexIt author of this problem? Any exported  
> function is going to much this up, and any of us who came to Mac OS  
> X from Linux or UNIX are probably going to have functions defined.


I wrote to Pierre Chatelier following the discussion in June, and he  
said he's aware of the problem and has a fix for it ready for the next  
update, which he plans to release after the Sparkle framework has been  
updated (see below for a link to the old thread).

Cheers,
Jan


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Pierre Chatelier <pierre.chatelier at club-internet.fr>
> Date: June 16, 2008 11:06:11 AM EDT
> To: Jan Anderssen <jan at linguist.umass.edu>
> Subject: Re: LaTeXIt
>
> Hello,
>
>> Derek Feng reported a problem with LaTeXIt on the MacTeX mailing  
>> list recently (he might have written you about it, so this is just  
>> on the chance he didn't).
> Yes, this is  a known bug. I have a beta ready to fix it, but I am  
> waiting for the Sparkle framework to be updated first.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Jan Anderssen <jan at linguist.umass.edu>
> Date: June 16, 2008 10:37:37 AM EDT
> To: pierre.chatelier at club-internet.fr
> Subject: LaTeXIt
>
> Salut Pierre,
>
> Derek Feng reported a problem with LaTeXIt on the MacTeX mailing  
> list recently (he might have written you about it, so this is just  
> on the chance he didn't).
>
> It turned out that he had some custom functions in his environment,  
> these were returned in multiple lines by 'set', and confused the  
> custom environment that LaTeXIt sets up. Removing them from his  
> environment solved the problem.
>
> If you're interested, details are in this thread of the mailing list  
> (called 'latexit issues'):
> http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/2008-June/thread.html#35551