[XeTeX] How to make XeTeX find the texmf.cnf file?

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Mon Nov 14 16:44:44 CET 2016


> On Nov 14, 2016, at 9:38 AM, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
> 
> Herbert,
> 
> He straightened out the ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines issue. Now I'm waiting for him to follow my suggestion and edit XeTeX.engine and XeLaTeX.engine so they look like mine. I conjecture that the path at the top of his engines has /usr/texbin but not /Library/TeX/texbin.
> 
> Dick
> 
> I hope we are almost there. If this works, I'll let you take over the rest. He'll need the correct path to run TeX Live Utility.
> 
> Fingers crossed.
> 
> Dick
> 
> 
>> On Nov 14, 2016, at 7:22 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 14, 2016, at 9:19 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 14, 2016, at 9:06 AM, George N. White III <gnwiii at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Nov 13, 2016, at 7:16 PM, Christian Boitet <Christian.Boitet at imag.fr> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I just added to my profile:
>>>>> setenv PATH "$PATH":"/usr/local/texlive/2016"
>>>>> 
>>>>> If I understand well, it should solve the problem... but it does not at the moment.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Howdy,
>>>> 
>>>> NO. The path needs to point to the binaries not the base of the distribution tree.
>>>> 
>>>> Try doing
>>>> 
>>>> setenv PATH "/Library/TeX/texbin:$PATH"
>>>> 
>>>> and see if that works.
>>>> 
>>>> Good Luck,
>>>> 
>>>> Herb Schulz
>>>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The OP is using macOS, where the default user shell is bash.   Normally, setenv is used with csh.
>>>> If the OP is using csh (not unexpected for a long-time TeX user) there may be some obscure 
>>>> configuration glitches.  Here, a tcsh user gets normal behaviour from MacTeX and macports' texlive.    
>>>> Macports' also provides TeXShop (versions 3.75 or 2.47).  Lots of moving parts and very little
>>>> hard data here.
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
>>>> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
>>> 
>>> Howdy,
>>> 
>>> The two engine files that he was looking for actually use csh (they go back quite a long time---old macOS versions used csh as the default).
>>> 
>>> Good Luck,
>>> 
>>> Herb Schulz
>>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>> 
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> Sorry, that should have been tcsh, not csh.
>> 
>> Good Luck,
>> 
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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Howdy,

I'd agree with you assessment since he seems to have some rather old TeX Live installs as well as TeX Live 2016 and BasicTeX 2016.

I do wish he'd fix up his PATH variable setting for CLI work. It's all getting mixed up in helping him out.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)




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