Ignore the GRRRR of the previous message because I’m managing to get
on with things fine despite the quirkiness which is becoming quite
interesting, viz:
the sliders on the web colour picker change colour in intriquing ways
when I move them about but at least I’m seeming to be able to get the
colours I want. Perhaps that’s how they should behave. I’ve never used
the web colour picker before.
Ignore the GRRRR of the previous message because I’m managing to
get on with things fine despite the quirkiness which is becoming
quite interesting, viz:
the sliders on the web colour picker change colour in intriquing
ways when I move them about but at least I’m seeming to be able to
get the colours I want. Perhaps that’s how they should behave. I’ve
never used the web colour picker before.
This sounds like the infamous Font Cache bug that comes up from time
to time with LaTeX. Download and run FontNuke it can’t hurt no matter
what and might even do it.
Running it was quite dramatic the way it brought the system down and
then waited a bit before restarting but seems to have done the trick.
Phew!
Now every app I run has it’s accompanying music of the disks as I
guess it recreates its cache.
Bravo.
You say this is a LatTeX bug.
Interesting. I was doing a fair bit of LatTeX work last night so your
diagnostic is likely to be spot on.
Just saw there’s an article about this on the MacTex user’s group site http://www.tug.org/mactex/fontcache/
When next have the opportunity I will see about installing a patch.
Thanks
all the best
Julius
On 16 Sep 2009, at 12:40, Alain Schremmer wrote:
On Sep 16, 2009, at 6:40 AM, julius wrote:
Ignore the GRRRR of the previous message because I’m managing to
get on with things fine despite the quirkiness which is becoming
quite interesting, viz:
the sliders on the web colour picker change colour in intriquing
ways when I move them about but at least I’m seeming to be able to
get the colours I want. Perhaps that’s how they should behave. I’ve
never used the web colour picker before.
This sounds like the infamous Font Cache bug that comes up from time
to time with LaTeX. Download and run FontNuke it can’t hurt no
matter what and might even do it.
Running it was quite dramatic the way it brought the system down
and then waited a bit before restarting but seems to have done the
trick.
Phew!
Now every app I run has it’s accompanying music of the disks as I
guess it recreates its cache.
Bravo.
You say this is a LatTeX bug.
Interesting. I was doing a fair bit of LatTeX work last night so
your diagnostic is likely to be spot on.
No, it is an Apple bug that seems to have finally been fixed. But I
do mostly (a lot of) LaTeX and I learned about it on macosx-
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Just saw there’s an article about this on the MacTex user’s group site http://www.tug.org/mactex/fontcache/
When next have the opportunity I will see about installing a patch.
I haven’t bothered. Next time it happens, I will know and just nuke
the font cach.