This actually bothered me for a while too. There is a patch on the trac ticket, please test it out on Linux :-)
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:16 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---