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[Peter Jung <address@hidden>]

Am 20.01.2006 um 09:15 schrieb Ingolf Schäfer:

> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:41:45 +0100, Peter Jung <address@hidden- 
> koeln.de> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > X11.app and TeXmacs are started, but the math-fonts are completely  
> > messed up. I am using os x 10.4.4 and the Fink version runs just  
> > fine.
> Hi Peter,
>
> this is strange. Are you sure, that you are not using teTeX by  
> Gerda Wieben's iInstaller?
>
> Can you please sent me the run.log?

Hi Ingolf,

You are right, I am using Gerben Wierda's teTeX, which I remember  
only now that you have reminded me. Apparently I did not read your  
instructions carefully...

So do you have any clue why the symbolic link of fink to the native  
teTeX is insufficient, although it is ok for the fink TeXmacs?

Is it possible to fix this? Because I think most users using LaTeX on  
the mac will have Gerben Wierda's teTeX...

> > By the way, has anybody spent some thinking on a native cocoa port  
> > of TeXmacs?
> Well,
>
> I spent very little thinking on that, because I consider it to be  
> too difficult for myself. It is surely possible by the way.
>
> But having an application bundle might help to attract more Mac  
> users and finally more Mac developers. Then the odds for a native  
> version are going to get better.

This is certainly right. At least, mac-users will now be much more  
ready to download a dmg, than having to cope with fink. However I  
fear, that the potential new mac users downloading the texmacs.dmg  
also could get frightened by the contrast between their expectation  
wrt an app in a dmg and the experience they have in this case.

To really attract a lot of mac users one ultimately would need a  
native port. I am currently considering this possibility. But I am  
not an experienced cocoa-developer, either.

Best Wishes,
Peter