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[Ingolf Schäfer <address@hidden>]

Hi,

I just wanted to announced the first or alpha version of an application  
bundle for MacOS X Tiger. It can be downloaded at

http://www.math.uni-bremen.de/~ovidius/texmacs.dmg.zip

Installation is simple just copy the application inside the .dmg-file into  
your favourite folder, e.g. Applications.

The application bundle includes TeXmacs 1.0.6, Ghostscript 8.5 and  
Guile-CVS, so there are no real requirements to using TeXmacs.

For optimal use an installed version of teTeX is recommended. For the  
moment only teTeX via Fink or DarwinPorts is supported.

Important differences to other platforms:

1.) TeXmacs preferences in standard Mac OS X location, i.e.  
/Users/username/Library/TeXmacs
2.) ttf search path is only in /Users/username/Library/TeXmacs/fonts/ttf
3.) Some plugins (R, shell) do not work, because I am waiting for the main  
TeXmacs tree to incorporate the necessary patches.
4.) An log of the output of TeXmacs can be found in  
/Users/username/Library/TeXmacs/run.log

Things, I am not happy with:

1.) I want to support older versions of Mac OS X, but I have no platform  
for testing.
2.) Support for iInstaller teTeX (Can somebody sent me the necessary path  
variables for it ?)

Things, I would like to include:
1.) Menu support for flushing the cache.
2.) Semi automatic import of ttf fonts, i.e. automatic generation of menu  
etc.
3.) Spotlight plugin

So, give it a try and give feedback.

Yours,

Ingolf

P.S. This application is not a universal binary, only the wrapper is, so  
don't be confused by that. Anyone with an Intel-based Mac offering help is  
very welcome.