Dear Matthias,
> Can you give me some details about the TeX system you have
> installed? It seems something is wrong with your metapost
> installation.
Certainly.
$ which tex
/sw/bin/tex
$ tex --version
TeX 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.4)
kpathsea version 3.5.6
Copyright (C) 1997-2004 D.E. Knuth.
Kpathsea is copyright (C) 1997-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the TeX copyright and
the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the files
named COPYING and the TeX source.
Primary author of TeX: D.E. Knuth.
Kpathsea written by Karl Berry and others.
$ fink list tetex
Information about 9096 packages read in 1 seconds.
p bundle-tetex [virtual package]
i tetex 3.0-1006 Complete distribution of the TeX
typesett...
i tetex-base 3.0-1006 Base programs for a teTeX
installation
tetex-dev 2.0.2-1047 Developer files for a teTeX
installation ...
p tetex-macosx [virtual package]
tetex-nox 3.0-1006 Complete distribution of the TeX
typesett...
tetex-nox-base 3.0-1006 Base programs for a teTeX
installation
tetex-shlibs 2.0.2-1047 Shared libraries for a teTeX
installation...
i tetex-texmf 3.0-2 Main texmf tree for a teTeX
installation
p tetex3-base [virtual package]
$ fink info tetex
Information about 9096 packages read in 0 seconds.
tetex-3.0-1006: Complete distribution of the TeX typesetting system
TeX takes a text file and a set of formatting commands as input and
creates a typesetter independent .dvi (DeVice Independent) file as
output.
TeTeX includes higher level formatting packages such as LaTeX, since
TeX by itself is not very user-friendly.
.
Web site: http://www.tug.org/teTeX
.
Maintainer: Dave Morrison <[email protected]>
...and...
$ which fontforge
/sw/bin/fontforge
$ fontforge --version
Copyright (c) 2000-2009 by George Williams.
Executable based on sources from 19:07 GMT 8-Apr-2009-ML.
Library based on sources from 19:39 GMT 8-Apr-2009.
fontforge 20090408
libfontforge 20090408-ML
$ fink info fontforge
Information about 9096 packages read in 1 seconds.
fontforge-20090408-101: Outline font editor
An outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript,
truetype, opentype, cid-keyed, multi-master, cff, svg and bitmap
(bdf)
fonts, or edit existing ones. Also lets you convert one format to
another. FontForge has support for many Macintosh font formats.
.
This program was formerly called PfaEdit.
.
Usage Notes:
Will use autotrace or potrace to trace bitmaps if available.
.
The python extension uses /usr/bin/python2.5 and is installed
into /sw/lib/system-python2.5/site-packages to avoid conflicts.
Add /sw/lib/system-python2.5/site-packages to PYTHONPATH or
use sys.path.append('/sw/lib/system-python2.5/site-packages')
from your scripts.
.
Web site: http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
.
Maintainer: Daniel Johnson <[email protected]>
Do you want any other information?
>
>> the program starts XWindows, and opens an xterm with something like:
>>
>> bash: /tmp/fink-build-HOME.Mj3vqUzp2q/.bashrc: Permission denied
>> bash-3.2$
>
> That may not be an issue.
>
>> (The characters after -HOME. change every time.)
>>
>> However, I do NOT have Logitech center installed on my system, nor
>> do I have directories "/Library/ScriptingAdditions/" nor "~/Library/
>> ScriptingAdditions" on my system.
>
> Is there anything in the documentation or output that would suggest
> that these components may be involved?
No.
I'll also answer a different question -- why did you bring up the
Logitech center or ScriptingAdditions directories?
I read three messages in the archives:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.general/28103
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.general/28104
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.general/28106
Thank you so much for your help!
-- Brent
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