On 9. Mrz 2007, at 10:57, Thomas Bohn wrote:

Could you post the header of your LaTeX code? I've never seen such message in my log files. So the LaTeX would help.

Yes. Here is the .lco file which I load as an option to the scrrltr2 class (the included Logo files are postscript graphics). But once again, this has compiled well in the past and still compiles fine with Texshop.

Christof

\ProvidesFile{cjanssenlpmaa.lco}[2007/01/24 letter class option]

\RequirePackage{graphicx} \RequirePackage[dvipsnames,usenames]{color} \RequirePackage[T1]{fontenc} \RequirePackage{lucidabr} \RequirePackage[english,german,frenchb]{babel} \LoadLetterOption{SN}

\setkomavar{fromname}{Christof Janssen} \setkomavar{fromaddress}{LPMAA, 3 rue Galil'ee\ 94200 Ivry sur Seine}

%%%%%% Define Header %%%%%%%%%%% \firsthead{\parbox[t]{\textwidth}{\includegraphics[height=1.8cm] {LogoCNRS}\hfill \includegraphics[height=1.8cm]{LogoLPMAA}\hfill \includegraphics[height=1.8cm]{LogoUPMC}}\vspace*{2mm}% \begin{center}{\emph{ Laboratoire de Physique Mol'eculaire pour l'Atmosph`ere et l'Astrophysique}\\footnotesize UMR 1043, Unit'e Mixte CNRS/UPMC}\end{center}}

%%%%%% Define Footer %%%%%%%%%%% \firstfoot{\parbox[b]{\textwidth}{\color{Gray}\scriptsize \begin{tabular}{cc@{\hspace{3cm}}c} COURRIER -- MAIL&&LOCALISATION -- LOCATION\ Universit'e Pierre et Marie Curie&&Universit'e Pierre et Marie Curie\ Case 76&&Immeuble \og Le Rapha"{e}l \fg\ 4, place Jussieu -- 75252 Paris Cedex 05 -- France&& 3, rue Galil 'ee -- 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine -- France\ \multicolumn{3}{c}{www.lpma.jussieu.fr} \end{tabular} }}

On 9. Mrz 2007, at 13:25, Allan Odgaard wrote:

On 9. Mar 2007, at 10:47, Christof Janssen wrote:

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I am not sure whether this is a TEX problem or a Textmate issue, but I decided to try it on this list first, because the problem appeared only after an update of Textmate. I am using a Powerbook G4 and Version 1.5.5 (1368) of Textmate. After the latest update, compiling of some latex documents has becoming extremely slow. [...]

Try compile from Terminal, if it is also slow there, it is not a TextMate problem.

Thanks for the hint. Running it in the terminal reveals that the different behavior between Texshop and Textmate is due to calling different latex engines. My copy of Textmate calls pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) and (my) Texshop pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5).

Thus the problem is not (directly) Textmate related. I just wonder why it happened after the last upgrade. I must have changed the Latex engine somehow!

On Mar 9, 2007, at 8:22 AM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:

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My copy of Textmate calls pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) and (my) Texshop pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5).

So, the thing that worries me here is that textmate uses pdftex instead of pdfetex. Wondering why that is, because typically it runs pdfetex. Hopefully a tex file I can compile might give some hints.

Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College

On Mar 9, 2007, at 8:46 AM, Thomas Bohn wrote:

On 03/09/07 08:31:45, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:

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So, the thing that worries me here is that textmate uses pdftex instead of pdfetex.

Can you explain me the difference between pdftex and pdfetex. Because in my MacTeX 2007 installation pdfetex is just a symlink to pdftex.

No not really, because I don't really know it ;) This is all I found: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=etex

I actually thought that tex as such is not used anymore, replaced by etex, and for instance in my admittedly old (circa 2005) tex install if I type pdftex on the command line then I get: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3)

So it is very surprising to me that Christof would be getting TextMate to use pdftex instead.

Thomas

Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College

On Mar 9, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Christof Janssen wrote:

On 9. Mrz 2007, at 14:31, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:

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On Mar 9, 2007, at 8:22 AM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:

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My copy of Textmate calls pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) and (my) Texshop pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5).

So, the thing that worries me here is that textmate uses pdftex instead of pdfetex. Wondering why that is, because typically it runs pdfetex. Hopefully a tex file I can compile might give some hints.

Haris,

I just realized that Texshop relies on the tetex distribution (installed with i-installer in /usr/local/teTex/bin/powerpc-apple- darwin7.9.0). pdflatex in that directory makes a call to pdftex. I have recently added gerben wierdas gwtex (also using the i- installer/automatic configuration: /usr/local/gwTeX/bin/powerpc- apple-darwin7.9.0). The latter is called by textmate and executes pdfetex. In the past, I must have used the previous engine with Textmate too. Which is the current version of pdfetex then?

Actually your problem is the other way around, it is textmate that is NOT executing pdfetex, at least doesn't seem to, which is what is puzzling me. So if you change the call that TeXShop makes and have it use gwTeX instead, do you then get the same log files?

Btw, do you have a /usr/texbin directory? If so, which distribution does it point to?

Also, when you compile from the command line via pdflatex, which version of tex is used then?

Does it make sense to send tex files if they cause trouble only with an outdated/depreciated engine?

If by deprecated you mean pdftex versus pdfetex, then yes it does make sense because textmate switches to use different engines based on the existence of some packages in the preamble, and perhaps that's where the problem is. So if you can send us the preamble, that's the part that I care about.

Christof

Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College

On Mar 9, 2007, at 10:02 AM, Christof Janssen wrote:

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Actually your problem is the other way around, it is textmate that is NOT executing pdfetex, at least doesn't seem to, which is what is puzzling me. So if you change the call that TeXShop makes and have it use gwTeX instead, do you then get the same log files?

Issuing the commands in a terminal, yes, I can always reproduce the error logs. The same occurs when I change the path in the Texshop preferences. pdflatex in the gwTeX tree always calls the pdftex engine rather than pdfetex and pdflatex in the tetex tree calls pdfetex.

Ok, it sounds like your problem is with gwtex then, you might want to take the discussion over to the "tex on macosx" mailing list.

If you want to be using the tetex you have installed instead, you'll want to use the switcher application that I think comes with the mactex install, so that it points back to your tetex install.

The difference basically is that TeXShop expects you to hardcode the paths to the executable (actually not anymore, i.e. downloading a new version of texshop should fix this, you might have to clear the preferences file though. Or you can change the paths yourself so that they point to /usr/texbin.

TextMate on the other hand uses whatever system the shell is set up to use. And so that would be whatever the switcher application sets it to be.

Here the preamble:

\documentclass[cjanssenlpmaa,backaddress=false]{scrlttr2}

\usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{epstopdf} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{pdfsync} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{lucidabr} \usepackage[frenchb]{babel} \setkomavar{subject}{blablabla} \date{09 mars 2007}

That looks innocuous enough.

Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College