Re: [Gretl-users] gretlpre.tex problem
I ran today's snapshot. This is very wierd.
I ran the new snapshot under an xterm. The "not moving" message you noted below
appeared. The window.tex file that was generated by the View command (on my system)
showed the same garbled result as before when the pdf came up automatically.
BUT when I instead typeset the same window.tex file manually (using TeXShop) the table
displayed perfectly.
So I'm at a bit of a loss. Some observations:
1. When I hit View in Gretl, the system fires up TeXShop and then the garbled pdf comes
up. Should TeXShop be starting? (TeXShop set itself to be the default viewer for TeX
source, but I don't know why it's starting up in this context. I would have
thought that pdflatex would be talking straight to the pdf viewer (in this case,
Acrobat).
2. I double-checked to make sure that the path to pdflatex I had in
Tools->Preferences->General->Programs actually pointed to a real file called
pdflatex. Indeed it does ('tho it's an alias).
Thanks for being so patient. The issue is starting to look more like a problem with the
typesetting system and less with Gretl. Sigh.
- Bob
On Jul 9, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Robert Levinson wrote:
Thanks, Allin.
The path for "Command to compile TeX files" is /usr/texbin/pdflatex
I'll download the snapshot and will let you know what happens.
Many thanks again!
- Bob
On Jul 9, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Robert Levinson wrote:
>
>> The fix you made works. Thank you very much.
>>
>> But one problem remains. Now I can save and copy LaTeX versions
>> of my output. But the View command still doesn't work properly.
>> The pdf file that comes up is garbled.
>
> Under /Tools/Preferences, what do you have set for "Command to
> compile TeX files"?
>
> In today's snapshot I've made a modification that should make
> trouble-shooting this sort of thing easier. Again you'll have to
> look at stderr to see it, but when you view LaTeX from within
> gretl you should see something like:
>
> not removing /Users/you/.gretl/window.tex
>
> This gives you the path to the temporary tex file that gretl wrote
> (and which we previously removed after use). If you could send me
> that file maybe I can figure out what's going wrong -- or maybe
> it'll be obvious to you.
>
> Allin Cottrell
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Robert J. Levinson
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Robert J. Levinson
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