[R] Running LaTeX dvi previewer on MacOS X

[Michael]

On 29 Feb 2008, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:

> On Feb 29, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Michael wrote:

> > On 29 Feb 2008, Frank E. Harrell, Jr. wrote:
> >
> >> Several people have given great advice on how to successfully use  
> >> X11 on
> >> Mac to so we can use the dvi previewer to view latex() output from
> >> Hmisc.  Now after a version upgrade of X11 and X11sdk we are getting
> >> lots of crashes.  I noticed a Mac dvi previewer with an executable
> >> stored as /Applications/TeX/TeXShop.app/Contents/MacOS/TeXShop
> >>
> >> Can we bypass X11 problems and point Hmisc to this executable for dvi
> >> viewing?
> >
> > I think TeXshop converts dvi to pdf (something like dvips -> ps2pdf) for
> > viewing. Why not just use pdf for Mac?  Preview.app on Leopard does do
> > live updating.

> And Skim.app does updating on Tiger, and is IMHO much better to  
> Preview.app in other ways (works with pdfsync for instance, allows  
> syncing back and forth between the pdf file and the corresponding tex  
> source)

We were not talking about using TeXshop to edit LaTeX files.  Rather the
latex() function Hmisc generates a dvi file and the question is how to view
it since Mac does not have native dvi viewer (other than xdvi).  The pdfsync
function of Skim or TeXshop is irrelevant.

Michael