[OS X TeX] newbie question on fonts motivated by LaTeXiT

[Richard Koch]

Dan,

Let me reply to a little of your message.

Since essentially the beginning of Mac OS X, the standard TeX  
distribution on the system was Gerben Wierda's redistribution of  
teTeX, and later his gwTeX. Gerben modified /etc/profile and /etc/ 
csh.cshrc to add the TeX binary path to the end of the path variable.  
It is useful to remember that a large number of TeX users on the Mac  
are not familiar with Unix and paths. Gerben took care of paths for  
them.

Later when MacTeX was introduced, Gerben's scripts were used without  
modification. Thus MacTeX and i-Installer handled paths in exactly the  
same way. In my opinion, it would have been irresponsible to invent a  
different, and incompatible, technique.

The scripts ARE idempotent. That is why the lines "do not remove the  
previous line" and "do not remove the next line" are present. I'm  
surprised that your found the above section repeated three times;  
during the construction of MacTeX I tend to rerun the scripts again  
and again and have never seen a repetition.

When you type

	which xdv2pdf

does the system find /usr/texbin/xdv2pdf or does it find a copy in /sw/ 
bin. It looks like it finds the version in /sw/bin. One way to solve  
this problem would be to modify your path, making sure that /usr/ 
texbin comes earlier than /sw/bin.

Dick
koch at math.uoregon.edu


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