Re: [Gretl-users] gretlpre.tex problem

Thanks for your quick response, Allin. In an effort to run a controlled experiment, I tried to parallel your example as closely as possible by first deleting my existing Gretl installation (from the Intel Mac disk images) by dragging my Gretl applications folder into the trash and then installing the current snapshot (which I presume is the same or really similar to what you're using) directly into my Applications folder. The problem remains (no surprise), but now I have the benefit of your print to stderr. Here's the xterm log when I (i) loaded Gretl from an open xterm, and (ii) tried to view the results of an arbitrary OLS regression from the model's LaTeX menu: -------------------------------------- bash-3.2$ cd /Applications/Gretl.app/Contents/Resources/bin bash-3.2$ ./Gretl (gretl_x11:3982): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to find default local directory monitor type (gretl_x11:3982): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed get_gretl_charset: using UTF-8 Read datafile /Users/rjlevins/gretl/BillGreene.gdt periodicity: 1, maxobs: 36 observations range: 1960-1995 gretltex: using preamble file /Users/rjlevins/gretl/ -------------------------------------- Re the warning and error messages -- Gretl seems to be confused to some degree. Any thoughts as to what they might mean? Do these seem to be related to the problem? The last two lines do seem to say that Gretl knows where to find the right preamble file. But there's a difference from your output -- the filename of the gretlpre.tex file isn't listed at the end (see last line above, compare to your example below). The contents of that gretlpre.tex file are exactly as listed in the manual for the default: -------------------------------------- \documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} %% but see below \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{dcolumn,longtable} \begin{document} \thispagestyle{empty} The error log generated by Gretl was just like before: -------------------------------------- This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009) (format=pdflatex 2010.7.8) 8 JUL 2010 19:57 entering extended mode %&-line parsing enabled. **\batchmode \input window (./window.tex ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}. [etc. etc.] ------------------------------------- This is all very puzzling. Thanks in advance for your help with this. - Bob On Jul 8, 2010, at 4:29 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: Robert J. Levinson rjlevinson(a)verizon.net