Re: [R] Running LaTeX dvi previewer on MacOS X

2008-03-01 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Charilaos Skiadas wrote: 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

[R] Running LaTeX dvi previewer on MacOS X

2008-02-29 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
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

Re: [R] Running LaTeX dvi previewer on MacOS X

2008-02-29 Thread Thomas Adams
Frank, You don't need to use X11 for TeXShop; I use Lyx for the Mac as well — I don't use X11 or xdvi for either… Regards, Tom 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

Re: [R] Running LaTeX dvi previewer on MacOS X

2008-02-29 Thread Michael
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

Re: [R] Running LaTeX dvi previewer on MacOS X

2008-02-29 Thread Charilaos Skiadas
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

Re: [R] Running LaTeX dvi previewer on MacOS X

2008-02-29 Thread Don MacQueen
The generic way to open an arbitrary file with an arbitrary application in OS X at the command line in a shell window is open -a application_name file_name quoted if there are embedded spaces. One doesn't generally have to give the full path to the application. Digging into help.start()

Re: [R] Running LaTeX dvi previewer on MacOS X

2008-02-29 Thread Michael
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.

Re: [R] Running LaTeX dvi previewer on MacOS X

2008-02-29 Thread Charilaos Skiadas
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

Re: [R] Running LaTeX dvi previewer on MacOS X

2008-02-29 Thread Michael
On 29 Feb 2008, Charilaos Skiadas wrote: 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? That was what I was saying. I thought the latex() command was just producing tex code. By defaults it