On May 9, 9:23 am, "Yi Qiang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This actually bothered me for a while too. There is a patch on the
> trac ticket, please test it out on Linux :-)
Works okay for me. (By the way, I am unable to reproduce my problem
from a few days ago, either before applying the patch or after. Maybe
my computer was just acting up?)
> 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
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