Perhaps people already know this or have worked-around but here is what I did to get JObserve java program to run on my G4 (OSX 10.3.8): -Downloaded the...
... Hi everyone - just joined the group. Just to let you know I submitted a patch to the JObserve guys back in November so it'll hopefully work from the next...
Hello, I would like to announce the availability of the second beta release for the Starlink Software Collection on OS X. Installation instructions and a...
I have never heard of the import over drag image problem, but the animations are problems. If you want to know your presentation will work for sure, when done...
Dear all, With the release of Tiger next Friday, I'm sure there will be a few bugs, problems or compatibility issues with the current suite of astronomy...
I don't know about you all, but *my* Mac's hard drive is bulging with more files than I can easily keep track of - and so I'm very much looking forward to...
Marshall Perrin
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Apr 22, 2005 8:36 am
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yo Marshall, put my name down as a helper. I would definitely find it useful to have fits capabilities in Spotlight! jeff ... ...
Jeff A. Stoesz
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Apr 22, 2005 8:51 am
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... I completely agree. Spotlight is the main reason I'm dying to install Tiger. I have hundreds of PDF preprints from ADS and astro-ph that I often end up...
Marshall, On 2005 Apr 22 , at 09.36, Marshall Perrin wrote: A propos a Spotlight FITS plugin ... I've also wondered about such a thing. Or rather we have,...
Norman Gray
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Apr 22, 2005 11:21 am
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... As a stopgap measure until your copy of Tiger arrives you could use Acrobat Reader. It has the ability to search the contents of a folder of PDF files,...
... I do use the plugin, because it is the first time I've been able to view PDF inline in Safari rather than just downloading the file, and opening it in a...
... Well, on the odd occasion I've been banned from arxiv it's said that it was for using a PDF plugin, although the message given talked about disabling it in...
Hi all, A little off-topic, but regarding PDF plugins, if the Acrobat Reader plugin isn't behaving well for you, I've had good experiences with the PDF plugin...
Has anyone else come across this "problem"? I find that when I run latex under OSX, the text is shifted up the page by a significant amount (ie a bit off the...
Tyler Bourke
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Apr 22, 2005 3:26 pm
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... That sounds very odd and it's not something I've seen myself. Any chance you could put an example .tex file on the web somewhere? Also, what format are you...
Tyler, I have noted a similar problem: the DVI output looks ok but the PS files (using dvips) is shifted. One solution is to add the -t option when you run...
Jes Jørgensen
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Apr 22, 2005 3:32 pm
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... Some installs seem to default to A4 paper. If you are using latex --> dvips --> pstopdf, try dvips -t letter. Also see if using pdflatex makes a...
FYI: I use latex or pslatex, dvips and ps2pdf. I don't want to use -t letter, as that hardcodes letter size into the ps file, which can be bad for folks in the...
Tyler Bourke
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Apr 22, 2005 3:54 pm
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A4 seems likely, looking at the bounding box in the ps file. tetex does originate from Germany. Anyone know how to recompile from fink with letter as the...
Tyler Bourke
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Apr 22, 2005 4:30 pm
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Under Redhat, it's configured the same way, I suspect that if you look in share/texmf.tetex/dvips/config/config.ps or share/texmf.local/dvips/config/config.ps ...
Brilliant. That worked. Slightly different path for OSX: /sw/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps Also a verions of Naomi's worked ... although I don't know...
Tyler Bourke
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Apr 22, 2005 5:22 pm
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... I think using texconfig puts a .texmf-config file in the users home directory which overrides the system-wide tex config file. naomi....
Why not just grab desired header information and process it with shell tools? Easy enough doing stuff like for fitsfile in *.fits do echo $fitsfile | sed...
Bernie Walp
bernie@...
Apr 29, 2005 12:59 am
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... Because then you're loosing the on-the-fly nature of Spotlight plugins, and you have to manually index them. The plugin can be upgraded from time to time,...
Anyone have the real deal yet? I'm hoping to my hands on it today and begin testing with it this weekend. We've been messing with betas for about a month now....
Does anyone out there know how to get emacs to recognize a key other than ESC for 'meta'? In particular, I'd like to be able to use option-x instead of ESC x...
Hannah Jang-Condell
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Apr 29, 2005 7:17 pm
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... Apple-X works for me GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 installed via fink. naomi....
Hi, I'm having a bit of a nightmare trying to compile pgplot on my Mac. The reason I am trying to compile it and not downloading from Fink is that I need the...
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