[texhax] Please help

[Axel E. Retif]

On  4 Jan, 2008, at 11:05, Ludwik Kowalski wrote:

> 1) Someone sent me a Latex source file containing a text with
> mathematical equations. That provided motivation for becoming familiar
> with reading tex files, and possibly start creating and typesetting my
> own. I have zero experience with this, except reading some tutorials
> found by Google.

I suggest you to download Prof. Grätzer's Short Course (the free  
first part of his ``More Math into LaTeX'', 4th ed.) in

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/Math_into_LaTeX-4/


> 2) I have an emac computer with the Mac OS-10.3.9 This morning I
> downloaded and installed TexShop, version 2.14. [...] Then I  
> pressed the TYPEST button, expecting to see
> the equations in the output window.
>
> 3) But produced the following error message:
>
> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/pdflatex does not
> exist.

Did you install the whole MacTeX package or just TeXShop? See

http://www.tug.org/mactex/

If you installed MacTeX, the path to binaries in TeXShop ->  
Preferences -> Engine should be

/usr/texbin

In Terminal.app you can type

which latex

hit return, and if TeX & Friends are installed you should get

/usr/texbin/latex

I advise you to join the TeX on Mac OS X mailing list:

http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/main.shtml#Mailinglist

Best,

Axel