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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

David G. Wonnacott wrote:

> I've been trying to use the CVS version and having some trouble. This
> is on a Macintosh running MacOS 10.3 with a unix-formatted disk
> partition for user files; texmacs 1.0.5 installed via fink works
> perfectly. I would like to install the CVS version of texmacs in my
> own account.
>
> I obtained the source via anonymous CVS without any problem, and then did:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/Volumes/UFS/Users/davew/lib/TeXmacs/
> make && make install
>
> and got texmacs and fig2ps in my lib/TeXmacs directory without any
> trouble at all. I added this to my path, and then tried to run
> TeXmacs, but got lots of font errors followed by a statement that "Tex
> seems not to be installed properly" (see transcript below).
You should try to compile a .tex file, in order to
know if your LaTeX install works correctly. If not,
you could try to uninstall, then re-install it via
fink, and check again if it works.


> Can you give any other advice about how to get this working? I'm
> planning to also try the same sequence on an Ubuntu linux box I could
> use if necessary.
>  
Either it is a stupid problem due to the fact that LaTeX
is not installed correctly on your machine, or either it
is a Mac-specific problem ; but I'm not a Mac user, so I
cannot really tell you more. In my own experience on various
Linux flavours, these kinds of problems happen when for some
reason, LaTeX is not correctly and/or not completely installed
on the machine, and they easily disappear as soon as you
have a complete LaTeX install on your machine.

But perhaps more Mac-literate people could also give
you more detailed ideas about how to solve the problem
you currently experience on your Mac box.