building a package on a Mac: pdflatex
Yes, most open-source software on Mac OS X is old. One issue is GPL-3: texinfo was an early adopter, and AFAIR texinfo 4.8 was the last GPL-2 release. My point was (and remains) that if you have your paths set up correctly, tools::texi2dvi will use the texi2dvi script and not pdflatex directly. And that this is all in the R-admin manual.
On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Berend Hasselman wrote:
On 05-07-2011, at 17:39, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, Federico Calboli wrote:
On 5 Jul 2011, at 16:26, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
which texi2dvi /usr/bin/texi2dvi and $:/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin$ ls texi* texindy but no texi2dvi. I did ask other mactex users and they also do not have texi2dvi
Well, I have texi2dvi and I use MacTex and I am on a fresh install (new laptop) of snow leopard + latest mactex. I am using the big 1.6GB "all of mactex" package you can download.
Me too. Have you tried which texi2dvi and find /usr/local/texlive/ -name texi2dvi I do not have a texi2dvi binary in the texlive directory.
Well, I did say it is a script, and on my Mac it is in /usr/bin/texi2dvi .
The texi2dvi issue has been discussed in the past: http://macosx-tex.576846.n2.nabble.com/Duplicate-texi-executables-on-Leopard-td623925.html I inspected the macTeX-2010.mkpg with Pacifist. It does not contain the texi2dvi script. MacTeX uses the latexmk perl script. /usr/texbin is on my PATH and running which -a texi2dvi gives: /usr/bin/texi2dvi AFAICT, texi2dvi is Apple provided. It is also quite old (at least if the 2004 refers to texi2dvi): Running texi2dvi --version in Terminal gives: texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 4.8) 1.34 Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. There is NO warranty. You may redistribute this software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING. Result of ls -l /usr/bin/texi* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 28218 12 Nov 2010 /usr/bin/texi2dvi -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 28218 24 Sep 2007 /usr/bin/texi2dvi.old -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 557096 12 Nov 2010 /usr/bin/texi2html -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 557096 24 Sep 2007 /usr/bin/texi2html.old -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 660 12 Nov 2010 /usr/bin/texi2pdf -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 660 24 Sep 2007 /usr/bin/texi2pdf.old -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 109520 12 Nov 2010 /usr/bin/texindex -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 102048 24 Sep 2007 /usr/bin/texindex.old I don't know where the .old versions come from. Berend Running Mac OS X 10.6.8 and R version 2.13.0 Patched (2011-04-26 r55655)
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