From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Ilberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Setting up Emacs, AucTeX and (La)TeX on Mac OSX Date: 14 Feb 2003 11:13:28 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045243068 1456 80.91.224.249 (14 Feb 2003 17:17:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:17:48 +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 18jjT8-0000N9-00 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:17:46 +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 18jjQu-0005Qt-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:15:28 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.text.tex,comp.emacs Original-Followup-To: comp.text.tex User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Crater Lake) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 43 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110200 comp.text.tex:242448 comp.emacs:77618 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:6700 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6700 "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?)? > > 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? As somebody else has already pointed out, TeXShop is a very nice interface to tetex on Mac OS X and I'd suggest you look at that first. There are links to the tetex distribution for Mac OS X on that site. http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html Another place to look would be iTexMac, but I haven't used it myself: http://itexmac.sourceforge.net/ All of these IIRC are binary distribution and very easy to install/get working. If you really want to use emacs (but not the command-line- only version that comes with Mac OS X) you can look at this site for more information: http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/ You'll need the developer tools for this one though. Usually there's an installer in /Applications/Installers or somewhere similar. Peter -- Peter Ilberg