Hi all, I would like to use the AASTeX package within TeXShop to prepare manuscripts for ApJ etc. I just included the aastex.cls file within the folder where I...
Nimesh, greetings, ... The following works for me, both within TeXShop and at the command-line: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \documentclass{aastex} ...
Norman Gray
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Feb 13, 2005 6:16 pm
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Norman, Many thanks for your suggestion. I do not get any errors now. Previously, I was getting this error: LaTeX Error: Option clash for package graphicx. ...
Nimesh, ... Ah, that musc have been because of the explicit [pdftex] option to graphicx. I'm not sure what the full story is, but I'm sure I remember reading...
Norman Gray
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Feb 13, 2005 8:01 pm
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Hi Nimesh, I use the fink teTex, so I can't help with TexShop. For pdf files, I was not happy with pdflatex, so instead I use pslatex, dvips and then ps2pdf....
Tyler Bourke
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Feb 14, 2005 2:13 pm
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Tyler, ... This isn't pdf(la)tex's fault, but (to some extent) Adobe's. It seems that Acrobat displays bitmap fonts extremely badly, and it's not greatly in...
Norman Gray
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Feb 14, 2005 2:26 pm
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... you can avoid one step by using latex then dvipdf instead of dvips - these display fine in Adobe acrobat and the files are usually a *lot* smaller in size...
Thanks for the info on latex/pslatex/pdflatex. Including pdf file directly is a nice option. Does anyone know - if you start with a big ps file (a figure), ...
Hi, Does anyone know how to output spectra to FITS using the OS X version of CLASS? The GFITS program seems to have vanished, and the GILDAS_FITS task just...
Lewis Knee
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Feb 23, 2005 8:53 pm
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Hmm, I have gfits in my OSX installation. Are you using the new Gildas that requires f90, or the older cobbled together binaries for OSX that use the older...
Tyler Bourke
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Feb 23, 2005 9:00 pm
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the CLASS/FITS conversion task has been incorporated into the other programs. E.g., from within CLASS: LAS> help las\fits LAS\FITS READ file[.fits] LAS\FITS...
sorry, I meant to add that you can also convert a gdf file made with the "cube" command into a FITS file from within CLASS by using the VECTOR\FITS command: ...
Tyler, I am using GildasOSX1.0 from http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/~smaret/index.php?page=software, but I don't think I have the components that need F90....
Lewis Knee
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Feb 23, 2005 9:20 pm
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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...