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I have small experience with LaTeX, though enough to write a couple of articles, half dozen of thesis and create a number of presentations.

Recently for some paper I picked Texmaker (I intentionally put a link here despite the fact what I’m writing next) as an editor of choice. It’s cross-platform, created with QT (which is pretty good).
On Windows with MikTeX it worked OK out of the box (with some changes like replacing pdflatex with xelatex).
On OSX it was working like that:
1) I click Quick Build
2) it shows the proper log from xelatex
3) the resultant PDF file is not created

When the same command was ran from the terminal the file was created properly.

OK, strange, so I went to the programs page on Google Code and file an issue (it is deleted now… explaining the situation above in a neutral and standard language, providing the details above.

Now I stop explaining and just provide 3 answers I got from this… person (unfortunately I don’t have my own comments saved and the issue is deleted from the tracker by the program maintainer – so silly):

Updates:
Status: Invalid

Comment #1 on issue 664 by texmaker@gmail.com: Quick build not working on OSX

http://code.google.com/p/texmaker/issues/detail?id=664

??? It’s not a texmaker trouble
If the pdf is not created, texmaker can’t show it!
And if the pdf is not created, that’s because xetex was not able to create it : the error should be displayed in the log file.
A latex editor only launches the commands : the document are not compiled by texmaker, but by xetex, pdflatex, etc…

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Comment #3 on issue 664 by texmaker@gmail.com: Quick build not working on OSX

http://code.google.com/p/texmaker/issues/detail?id=664

#2 ???. I’m very calm. Why are you so agressive?
You said “the pdf file is not in the destination folder (not created/updated)” : if the pdf is not created, how can a program can display it???
You said that manually, you use xelatex file.tex but in the texmaker command, you use xetex instead of xelatex!!!

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Comment #5 on issue 664 by texmaker@gmail.com: Quick build not working on OSX

http://code.google.com/p/texmaker/issues/detail?id=664

#4 the pdf is not created by texmaker but by xelatex!
You should learn latex before posting.

$ sudo su postgres -c '/opt/local/lib/postgresql91/bin/initdb -D /opt/local/var/db/postgresql91/defaultdb'
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: Permission denied
could not identify current directory: Permission denied
could not identify current directory: Permission denied
could not identify current directory: Permission denied
The program "postgres" is needed by initdb but was not found in the
same directory as "initdb".
Check your installation.

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$ sudo su postgres -c '/opt/local/lib/postgresql91/bin/initdb -D /opt/local/var/db/postgresql91/defaultdb'
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: Permission denied
could not identify current directory: Permission denied
could not identify current directory: Permission denied
could not identify current directory: Permission denied
The program "postgres" is needed by initdb but was not found in the
same directory as "initdb".
Check your installation.

Then first do

cd /opt/local/var/db/postgresql91/

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cd /opt/local/var/db/postgresql91/

I’m calling a function accepting a hash of options.

THe function is declared in a separate file included through script.

IDE highlights the keys that are not used in the function being called.

And also SO: Specify type of globals declared in another file.

A much-requested on SO function for sorting DOM elements.

jQuery.fn.sortItems = function (key) {
    var $items = [],
        $wrap = $('<div/>'),
        i, l;
    this.each(function () {
        $items.push([key(this), $(this)]);
    });
    if (!$items) {
        return;
    }
    $wrap.insertBefore($items[0][1]);
    $items.sort();
    for (l = $items.length, i = l - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
        $items[i][1].insertAfter($wrap);
    }
    $wrap.remove();        
};

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jQuery.fn.sortItems = function (key) {
    var $items = [],
        $wrap = $('<div/>'),
        i, l;
    this.each(function () {
        $items.push([key(this), $(this)]);
    });
    if (!$items) {
        return;
    }
    $wrap.insertBefore($items[0][1]);
    $items.sort();
    for (l = $items.length, i = l - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
        $items[i][1].insertAfter($wrap);
    }
    $wrap.remove();        
};

Demo.

Installed it on my home server under Ubuntu Server 11.04, configured daemon and web UI startup – looks really cool, as a normal full-featured desktop client

For 2 days I was burning various Windows PE / FreeDOS / custom tools to the RW trying to erase the BIOS setup password
Then just followed the official guide, released the keyboard in 5 minutes, and unplugged the RTC battery for extra 5 minutes — done.

Tiered of installing from sources?
The answer is as easy as

sudo port install py27-pyqt4

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sudo port install py27-pyqt4

Of course, the python version can be different for you.