Comments on: Setting up LaTeX on Mac OS X

By: pooz

pooz — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:46:48 +0000

Noone any Idea?

By: pooz

pooz — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:12:02 +0000

This is very strange, because TeXShop is able to use Acrobat...

But Acrobat is the only player, which supports playback of sound-files. (unfortunately skim won´t). Thats why I need it.

By: Christian Plessl

Christian Plessl — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:37:57 +0000

No, I think it’s in the current version of the LaTeX not possible to setup the PDF viewer to Acrobat. But this doesn’t make any sense in my view anyway, as Acrobat is very slow compared to the other viewers.

By: pooz

pooz — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:19:27 +0000

Hello,

is it possible to change the PDF Viewer to Adobe Reader /Acrobat? These are the only ones, which play sounds and movies (by using the movie15 package for example).

Thanks in advance

By: ruminator

ruminator — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:23:22 +0000

I might also add that the excellent MacTex distribution is both well-developed and well-supported. As I write, the 2009 version is about to be released. Well, the maintainers keep promising...

In the meantime, the 2008 version of MacTex is working well for me. It's a decent alternative to the fink or gwTeX installs. I believe both of these are based on the teTeX distribution, which Thomas stopped supporting a year or two ago.

Thanks for the post!

By: jesus bellido

jesus bellido — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:22:31 +0000

A very useful blog! Nice

By: Christian Plessl

Christian Plessl — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:08:17 +0000

Gaius, your headers look good, I don’t see anything wrong. But there are better places to ask these kind of questions, e.g, the comp.text.tex newsgroup.

By: Gaius

Gaius — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 01:49:37 +0000

I'm having trouble with UTF-8 characters. For example, if I put a phi in my source here's a phi: ϕ, I get an error:

Latex Error: ./readme.tex:30 Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:ϕ not set up for use with LaTeX.

I have the following in my header:

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{textcomp} % also tried without this line

Suggestions?

By: Oskar

Oskar — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:23:15 +0000

Tamer,
Another way to comment a bunch of lines in TM is to select the lines to be commented and hit “Cmd-/”. That command works in most file modes and uses the appropriate comment character.

By: Gabor

Gabor — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:23:09 +0000

A note: pdfsync seems to break the p-width in tabular