[Mac OS X TeX] TeXShop and tex/gs (again)

[Andrew J. Miller]

<x-flowed>I was having the same problem with tex-ghostscript in TeXShop.

I found that  this line in my .tcshrc file was causing 
tex-ghostscript to not work
        setenv MANPATH "${MANPATH}:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man"

One way to get around this is to replace this line of code in the 
.tcshrc with the following:

if ($?MANPATH) then
         setenv MANPATH "${MANPATH}:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man"
endif

That way if the MANPATH variable is not set, it will skip the setenv line.

The expression $?var  returns 1 if var is set, and 0 if it is not set.
This could be used with any variable that is not defined when 
tex-ghostscript typesetting is used.



>>Hi,
>>
>>(just a small comment as an addition to the not-so-recent thread on 
>>tex-ghostscript typesetting not working in TeXShop:)
>>
>>I have noticed that if I start TeXShop by clicking (i.e. Finder or 
>>Dock), tex-ghostscript typesetting does not work for me (nothing 
>>happens at all). If I, however, start TeXShop from the terminal, 
>>e.g. by typing "open file.tex", tex-ghostscript works just fine. 
>>This seems to support the theory about .cshrc-strangeness. It may 
>>also be a less awkward "solution" to the problem than editing the 
>>.cshrc file (until this bug is fixed...).
>>
>>/ Kristofer Johannisson
>>
>>>Folks,
>>>
>>>>Marc Parizeau wrote: "My .cshrc contained only
>>>>
>>>>	setenv PATH "${PATH}:/usr/X11R6/bin"
>>>>
>>>>And indeed, after I removed it, TeXShop started to work ok in
>>>>TeX/GS mode. This is really a strange bug, I just can't imagine why
>>>>these commands have any impact on the behavior of TeXShop?!
>>>>Does this imply that TeXshop reads the .cshrc file and tries to
>>>>interpret it???
>>>>... Obviously, the authors of TeXShop should look into this mystery
>>>>for
>>>>future release..."
>>>>
>>>>I agree. I'll be gone for a week, but then I'll look
>>>>into the mystery. TeXShop doesn't look at the .cshrc, so I'm as
>>>>puzzled as everyone else!!
>>>
>>>
>>>very simple answer:
>>>
>>>texshop does not look straight into the .cshrc file but it launches
>>>scripts (from tetex) that do look iinto the .cshrc file. So it reads the
>>>
>>>.cshrc indirectly.
>>
>>
>
>
>I had similar problems with a manpath command in my .cshrc. I `solved' them
>by putting the offending command in the .login file.
>
>Michael
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