From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Norman Gray Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Setting up Emacs, AucTeX and (La)TeX on Mac OSX Date: 14 Feb 2003 18:24:11 -0000 Organization: University of Glasgow Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045252159 16710 80.91.224.249 (14 Feb 2003 19:49:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:49:19 +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 18jlpi-0004Kl-00 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 20:49:14 +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 18jlqn-0000hr-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:50:21 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!kibo.news.demon.net!demon!easynet-quince!easynet.net!magenta.plig.net!earthli!nntphost.dur.ac.uk!server6.netnews.ja.net!news.gla.ac.uk!lenzie.cent.gla.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.text.tex,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 49 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lenzie.cent.gla.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: singer.cent.gla.ac.uk 1045247052 16114 130.209.34.18 (14 Feb 2003 18:24:12 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@gla.ac.uk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Feb 2003 18:24:12 GMT Organisation: Glasgow University, UK X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #18 (NOV) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110214 comp.text.tex:242460 comp.emacs:77622 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:6716 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6716 Greetings, "D. D. Brierton" writes: >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?)? I wouldn't bother installing Apple's X server at this stage -- you really don't need it. I use Gerben Wierda's teTeX distribution, which is an OS X distribution of the standard TeX distribution. I use it in a unixy way, but very many folk swear by Richard Koch's TeXShop, which is a nice front end for it. Both, and much more, are pointed to by . That site also points to the MacOSX-TeX mailing list, which is reasonable-volume, and useful. On the Mac I use pdf(la)tex exclusively. OS X's Preview application works OK, really, but has occasionally wimped out on me, so I use Acrobat Reader to view PDFs. I use porkrind emacs, at , which is a build of Andrew Choi's current snapshot of Emacs 21.3 . Yes, you could lift the source and build it yourself, but I've built emacs enough times that the novelty has worn off, and I really can't see the need to bother. Folk seem to both swear by and swear at Fink. I've managed perfectly well so far, without having to form an opinion, so if I were you I'd avoid it at present, and so avoid multiplying your worries unnecessarily. >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? If you do need to build stuff, then you'll need to install the developer tools. They're not installed by default, but can be found on the grey CD which came with the OS X CDs. Good luck, Norman -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman Gray http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/