[OS X TeX] A problem with TeXShop

[Louis Talman]

I've had some occasional problems with TeXShop hanging up after a  
compilation error, and I don't use any of the things Dick mentioned.

However, I've found that the problem goes away if I trash the auxiliary  
files before I try another compilation.

--Lou Talman

On Sat, 03 Jun 2017 18:16:17 -0600, M. Tamer Özsu <ozsut at mac.com> wrote:

> I did and will monitor it Herb. Thanks much.
>
> ==Tamer
> --
> M. Tamer Özsu
> Professor, Cheriton School of Computer Science
> University of Waterloo
> https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~tozsu
> +1-519-888-4043
>
>> On Jun 3, 2017, at 8:10 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 3, 2017, at 5:55 PM, M. Tamer Özsu <ozsut at mac.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks Dick. I am not using pstricks, but I am using tikz. The issue  
>>> is that this does not happen all the time; only when compilation runs  
>>> >>>into a problem (and even then not always). It is possible that the  
>>> problematic run is running into a tikz problem somewhere.
>>>
>>> ==Tamer
>>> --
>>> M. Tamer Özsu
>>> Professor, Cheriton School of Computer Science
>>> University of Waterloo
>>> https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~tozsu
>>> +1-519-888-4043
>>>
>>>> On Jun 3, 2017, at 6:53 PM, Richard M. Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I think you have run into an Apple bug, which we reported to Apple  
>>>> several weeks ago.
>>>>
>>>> The bug occurs if you
>>>> 	\usepackage{pstricks}
>>>>
>>>> but then typeset using pdflatex. Of course pstricks requires  
>>>> typesetting with TeX + DVI, but some
>>>> users have been including pstricks, but not actually using any  
>>>> features of the package. This worked
>>>> until a recent version of Sierra.
>>>>
>>>> Sometimes, \usepackage{tikz} is also required to trigger the bug.
>>>>
>>>> The resulting pdf displays fine in Adobe Acrobat, but hangs both  
>>>> Preview and TeXShop, because
>>>> both use PDFKit to display pdf files. Once the pdf is bad, restarting  
>>>> TeXShop will cause it to try
>>>> to load the pdf again and crash again.
>>>>
>>>> If this isn't it, write again. There is another Apple bug with  
>>>> difference consequences, but
>>>> this is the most likely in your case.
>>>>
>>>> Dick Koch
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Jun 3, 2017, at 3:43 PM, M. Tamer Özsu <ozsut at mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I am having an interesting intermittent problem with TeXShop. If it  
>>>>> runs into a compilation error, after I end >>>>>the compilation  
>>>>> session, it hangs up. I have to abort it, and subsequent restarts  
>>>>> hang up as well. Usually I >>>>>have to restart the system. This  
>>>>> happens on two machines, both of which are on 10.12.5 and TeXShop  
>>>>> >>>>>version 3.77.
>>>>>
>>>>> I wonder if this happens to anyone else. I have not been able to  
>>>>> figure out what the cause might be. It >>>>>started in the last  
>>>>> couple of weeks.
>>>>>
>>>>> ==Tamer
>>>>> --
>>>>> M. Tamer Özsu
>>>>> Professor, Cheriton School of Computer Science
>>>>> University of Waterloo
>>>>> https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~tozsu
>>>>> +1-519-888-4043
>>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> WE may be running into another problem we've seem recently. If you've  
>> been a long term user of TeXShop (i.e., back quite a long time) your  
>> (pdf)>>(la)tex settings may be wron which leads to problems when you  
>> run into an error showing up in the Console window.
>>
>> Please go to the Engine tab of TeXShop->Preferences and click on the  
>> two `default' buttons in both the pdfTeX and TeX+dvips+distiller  
>> sections of >>that page (four buttons in all) and see if that fixes the  
>> problem.
>>
>> Good Luck,
>>
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>>
>>
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--Louis A. Talman, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
Metropolitan State University of Denver

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