From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "D. D. Brierton" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Setting up Emacs, AucTeX and (La)TeX on Mac OSX Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:05:52 +0000 Organization: DZR Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045239989 19440 80.91.224.249 (14 Feb 2003 16:26:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:26:29 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18jiOe-0003qq-00 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:09:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18jiQ0-0002bh-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:10:28 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!skynet.be!skynet.be!landlord!wards.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.text.tex,comp.emacs User-Agent: Pan/0.11.4 (Unix) X-Comment-To: ALL Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.159.101.92 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@plus.net.uk Original-X-Trace: wards 1045238898 212.159.101.92 (Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:08:18 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:08:18 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110190 comp.text.tex:242442 comp.emacs:77615 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6693 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6693 Apologies for cross-posting to comp.text.tex and the Emacs groups. Please prune/set follow-ups accordingly. A friend of mine has decided at a very late stage of writing up her PhD thesis to switch from MS Word to LaTeX. She's a Mac user, using the latest OSX. As I wrote my thesis in LaTeX using Emacs/AucTeX I've offered to help her out. The trouble is that she's a Mac user who knows next to nothing about Unix, and I'm a Unix (specifically Linux) user who knows next to nothing about Macs. As this is quite late in the day for her to be doing this (although it is almost certainly necessary) I was wondering if someone out there might be able to point me in the direction of some how-tos, or even hold my (our) hand through this. First questions: is it best (or necessary) to install the X server Apple recently released, or are there native Aqua builds of Emacs and whatever DVI viewers she might need (I guess that if she just uses pdflatex then she can just use Aqua's native PDF rendering for previewing?)? Next question: are there nice prebuilt binary packages which we can download and install, or do we need to build from source, and if so, does the bog-standard OSX install contain all the necessary developer tools? Last (for now): how similar are the standard install paths on OSX to Linux? Can I just make install auctex into /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp? And do whatever LaTeX macros she needs go into ~/texmf? If there is a better place to post ask this kind of thing (e.g. an Aqua/OSX for Linux users newsgroup) then please let me know. TIA, Darren -- ====================================================================== D. D. Brierton darren@dzr-web.com www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson) ======================================================================