On Feb 29, 2008, at 5:39 PM, Michael wrote: > On 29 Feb 2008, Charilaos Skiadas wrote: > >> On Feb 29, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Michael wrote: > >>> On 29 Feb 2008, Frank E. Harrell, Jr. wrote: >>> >>>> Several people have given great advice on how to successfully use >>>> X11 on >>>> Mac to so we can use the dvi previewer to view latex() output from >>>> Hmisc. Now after a version upgrade of X11 and X11sdk we are >>>> getting >>>> lots of crashes. I noticed a Mac dvi previewer with an executable >>>> stored as /Applications/TeX/TeXShop.app/Contents/MacOS/TeXShop >>>> >>>> Can we bypass X11 problems and point Hmisc to this executable >>>> for dvi >>>> viewing? >>> >>> I think TeXshop converts dvi to pdf (something like dvips -> >>> ps2pdf) for >>> viewing. Why not just use pdf for Mac? Preview.app on Leopard >>> does do >>> live updating. > >> And Skim.app does updating on Tiger, and is IMHO much better to >> Preview.app in other ways (works with pdfsync for instance, allows >> syncing back and forth between the pdf file and the corresponding tex >> source) > > We were not talking about using TeXshop to edit LaTeX files. > Rather the > latex() function Hmisc generates a dvi file and the question is how > to view > it since Mac does not have native dvi viewer (other than xdvi). > The pdfsync > function of Skim or TeXshop is irrelevant.
Why is it important that the output file be a dvi file? Would it be a problem to have the latex() function produce a pdf file on mac systems? I thought the latex() command was just producing tex code. > Michael Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.