Re: Prosper on OSX for a newbie

On Sep 7, 2005, at 11:25 AM, Mathieu Goutelle wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Peter Cornillon wrote/a écrit :
>
>> I tried to replace xcolor on my machine, but I'm not sure if I really 
>> succeeded. I downloaded what I think is the most recent version and 
>> moved it to:
>> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/
>
> Did you rebuild the filename database?
> <http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=instpackages>

I did all this and had the same problem. The log file shows the newer 
version of xcolor. Also, the test for xcolor2.tex fails the same way -

! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \c@lor@to@ps

The other two tests xcolor1.tex and xcolor3.tex  succeed. xcolor2.tex 
is the only one that uses pstricks.

I have, however, found that I can run prosper from a unix window 
bypassing TexShop. I also found a message from a few years ago that 
says that TexShop does not work with prosper although I thought that I 
ran across a more recent message saying that the newer version of 
TexShop had fixed that problem. I would prefer to use TexShop (if 
anyone out there knows how to fix the problem that I am having) but can 
live with running it at the Unix level on my machine.

Merci Mathieu.

Peter

>
>
>> How can you tell that there is a problem in xcolor?
>
> With a little help of my so famous crystal ball, these lines seems 
> weird to me:
> ----------------
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/xcolor/xcolor.sty
> Package: xcolor 2004/07/04 v2.00 LaTeX color extensions (UK)
>
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/color.cfg
> File: color.cfg 2004/07/07 v1.2 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
> )
> Package xcolor Info: Package option `override' ignored on input line 
> 128.
> Package xcolor Info: Driver file: pdftex.def on input line 136.
> ----------------
>
> First your version is quite old: the last one is from 2005/06/06 
> according to 
> ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xcolor/README 
> and this package keeps evolving during this year, in parallel with 
> pstricks (and xkeyval). Secondly, in those lines, xcolor tries to load 
> 'pdftex.def' even if you compile with LaTeX.
>
> If I were you, I will also update pstricks and xkeyval at the same 
> time actually: if it is not the cause of the problem, it won't hurt...
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> Mathieu Goutelle
>
>
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