On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:12 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:26 PM, John H Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> A problem: on my linux box, if I use 'view' (not in a notebook), an >> xdvi window appears then immediately disappears. If I run view with >> 'debug=True', toward the end I get this: >> >> Output written on sage.dvi (1 page, 740 bytes). >> Transcript written on sage.log. >> gs: Unrecoverable error: limitcheck in .putdeviceprops >> xdvik gs_io: Broken pipe >> xdvik gs_io: Broken pipe >> xdvik gs_io: Broken pipe >> ghostscript died unexpectedly. >> xdvi.bin: spcl_scan: shouldn't happen: POST encountered, offset 659 >> >> Has anyone seen this before? (This works on my mac, just not on my >> linux box.) >> > > I have never seen that before. > >> And a question: on my mac, suppose I want to use TeXShop instead of >> xdvi to display the output of the view command. Is there a way to do >> this? >> > > The use of xdvi is hardcoded in > > sage/misc/latex.py > > so the answer is I guess to change this and submit a patch > or make it a trac ticket. It's reasonable to consider this > a bug, since view should I think just use the OS X open > command as defined in sage/misc/viewer.py, i.e., use > whatever is the default opener for a dvi file on your system. > > It's hardcoded xdvi right now since that was some of the first > sage code I ever wrote and that was long before I ported > Sage to run on OS X...
OK, I made this trac #3137: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3137 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
