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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

Dear Ingolf,

Sorry for my late reply. You work is extremely interesting,
but I needed some time to test it.

On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 10:41:29PM +0100, Ingolf Schäfer wrote:
> I just wanted to announced the next 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
> 
> The source code (XCode 2.2) for the starter is available at
> 
> http://www.math.uni-bremen.de/~ovidius/texmacsstarter-src.zip
> 
> Installation is simple just copy the application inside the .dmg-file
> into your favorite folder, e.g. Applications.
> 
> The application bundle includes TeXmacs 1.0.6, Ghostscript 8.5 and
> Guile-CVS, freetype, so there are no real requirements to using TeXmacs
> other then X11.
> 
> For optimal use an installed version of teTeX is recommended.

It works for me, except that it uses the wrong freetype library
(so no fonts are visible). It is possible that this is a specific problem
of my computer though.

> 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.

Which patches?

> 4.) An log of the output of TeXmacs can be found in
> /Users/username/Library/TeXmacs/run.log

I don't see such a file.

> Things, I am not happy with:
> 
> 0.) I want to support older versions of Mac OS X, but I have no platform
> for testing.

If someone has such a system and is willing to test, that would be great.

> In principle this version should run on Mac OS X 10.3.9 aka Panther.
> 
> Things, I would like to include:
> 1.) Semi automatic import of ttf fonts, i.e. automatic generation of
> menu etc. (The menu is already there but does not do anything right now).

I fear that one has to hack the TeXmacs sources for this one.

> 2.) The "Convert" and the "Print" menu do nothing yet.

Notice also that the TeXmacs Starter menu disappears as soon as X is launched
on my system (it gets replaced by X).

> 3.) Spotlight plugin

That would be nice indeed.

Best wishes, Joris