Re: [Gretl-users] gretlpre.tex problem
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Robert Levinson wrote:
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).
On OSes other than MS Windows and Mac OS X we offer the user a
choice of PDF viewer (under /Tools/Preferences). But on Windows
and OS X we assume the user has already selected a preferred
viewer, and we just issue a call to the OS to open the PDF file.
If TeXShop is coming up, that's OS X's decision. On a vanilla OS X
installation one might expect the Preview program to handle PDFs.
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.
Or a problem with the default PDF viewer?
Allin Cottrell