From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim McNamara Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Printing under OS X Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:59:03 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <4yk73mbr8p.fsf@skjellgran.ii.uib.no> <87r7xt4zoo.fsf@uhoreg.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074697586 26764 80.91.224.253 (21 Jan 2004 15:06:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:06:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 21 16:06:20 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AjJvw-0003Yj-00 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:06:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AjJs5-0006Hv-8m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:02:21 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!gemini.bitstream.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Iupgiw4crmZC8+EUOXVq0low11s= Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 1212fb9c.news.bitstream.net Original-X-Trace: 1074697144 gemini.bitstream.net 435 216.243.177.155 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@bitstream.net Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:120305 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:16249 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16249 Hubert Chan writes: >>>>>> "Tim" == Tim McNamara writes: > > [...] > >>> If you have a complete and working (La)TeX installation you >>> probably (must ??) have dvips installed somewhere. > > Tim> I installed AucTeX from source, but no dvips with that or > Tim> anywhere on my drive. I'll look around on the 'net. Thanks! > > AucTeX is not a (La)TeX distribution. It is only an emacs package > for making dealing with (La)TeX files easier. In order to do > anything useful with LaTeX files, you'll need to install a LaTeX > distribution. Yes, thank, I was able to figure out the essentials. Mainly I want to be able to send articles for publication formatted in LaTeX, so- as it turns out from my research- I would be perfectly satisfied with a previewer rather than being able to print hard copies. > It looks like fink[1] includes a port of tetex, so you can try that. > > [1] http://fink.sourceforge.net/ > > Just install fink, and run "apt-get install tetex" from a terminal. > (Or use their graphical tool, if you don't like the command line.) > Then you'll have to fiddle with some path stuff so that emacs can > find fink-installed software. (I don't use a Mac, so I can't help > you with that. Maybe someone else can.) I'm familiar with fink and no longer use it because its non-standard installation paths (putting everything in a /sw directory) end up causing more trouble than it's worth. The other emerging standard is to put everything in an /opt directory, which has the added benefit of creating probelsm with /sw installations as well as putting files in unexpected places so that standard installations can't find them. Sigh. The OS X community really hasn't quite gotten the hang of this yet. Thanks for your suggestions! This is probably the most practically helpful newsgroup I read.