Running LaTeX dvi previewer on MacOS X

On Feb 29, 2008, at 5:39 PM, Michael wrote:

On 29 Feb 2008, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:

On Feb 29, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Michael wrote:
On 29 Feb 2008, Frank E. Harrell, Jr. wrote:

Several people have given great advice on how to successfully use
X11 on
Mac to so we can use the dvi previewer to view latex() output from
Hmisc.  Now after a version upgrade of X11 and X11sdk we are  
getting
lots of crashes.  I noticed a Mac dvi previewer with an executable
stored as /Applications/TeX/TeXShop.app/Contents/MacOS/TeXShop

Can we bypass X11 problems and point Hmisc to this executable  
for dvi
viewing?
I think TeXshop converts dvi to pdf (something like dvips ->  
ps2pdf) for
viewing. Why not just use pdf for Mac?  Preview.app on Leopard  
does do
live updating.
And Skim.app does updating on Tiger, and is IMHO much better to
Preview.app in other ways (works with pdfsync for instance, allows
syncing back and forth between the pdf file and the corresponding tex
source)
We were not talking about using TeXshop to edit LaTeX files.   
Rather the
latex() function Hmisc generates a dvi file and the question is how  
to view
it since Mac does not have native dvi viewer (other than xdvi).   
The pdfsync
function of Skim or TeXshop is irrelevant.
Why is it important that the output file be a dvi file? Would it be a  
problem to have the latex() function produce a pdf file on mac systems?
I thought the latex() command was just producing tex code.
This discussion is about previewing the result of latex(), and Hmisc has 
several dvi-related functions.  One could write a similar pdf conversion 
or pdf viewer functions taking as input the result of dvi(latex()). 
Also, I'm trying to just make the mechanisms in Hmisc for latex() that 
work fine on Linux/Unix/Windows work well for Mac users.

Frank

Michael
Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College

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