[OS X TeX] can't get Equation Editor to work
Gerben Wierda
Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl
Thu Feb 3 21:17:42 CET 2005
On 3 Feb 2005, at 17:28, Na Li wrote:
> On 2 Feb 2005, Thomas Braun told this:
>
>> Did you look the console output (/Applications/utilities/console.app)?
>> Thomas
>
> Thanks for the hint. After checking the console.log, I saw
>
> 2005-02-03 09:49:48.827 EqEditor[7494]
> /tmp/3C03DC3E-75FB-11D9-B2DE-000A95A69BE0-7494-000011D6CA842F94/
> sh: line 1: mkdir: command not found
> 2005-02-03 09:49:51.813 EqEditor[7494] 36.00
> 2005-02-03 09:49:51.813 EqEditor[7494] /Applications/LaTeX Equation
> Editor.app
> 2005-02-03 09:49:51.813 EqEditor[7494]
> /tmp/3C03DC3E-75FB-11D9-B2DE-000A95A69BE0-7494-000011D6CA842F94/
> equation.pdf
> sh: line 1: cd:
> /tmp/3C03DC3E-75FB-11D9-B2DE-000A95A69BE0-7494-000011D6CA842F94/: No
> such file or directory
> sh: line 1: rm: command not found
> sh: line 1: cd:
> /tmp/3C03DC3E-75FB-11D9-B2DE-000A95A69BE0-7494-000011D6CA842F94//: No
> such file or directory
> 2005-02-03 09:49:53.437 EqEditor[7494] Display error log
>
> I'm not sure why the commands like 'mkdir' or 'rm could be found.
> Perhaps
> their full paths should be used in EqEditor?
>
> Anyway, after I opened Equation Editor at the command line, I got it
> working.
This is a sign that your environment (PATH especially) for GUI apps is
hosed. Check ~/,MacOSX/environment.plist. If you start form the command
line, the app inherits the CLI environment which is set in another way.
G
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
>
>> On Feb 1, 2005, at 20:22, Na Li wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, I'm a long time LaTeX user and have been using LateX
>>> (i-Installer)
>>> happily on a Mac. Recently I tried to use LaTeX Equation Editor in
>>> order to stick one equation or two onto web pages. However, I always
>>> got an error message ("An error occurred ...") and there was no error
>>> log. I checked the path for latex and gs, which looked good. It is
>>> really baffling. Can anyone give a clue as to where I should look to
>>> fix it?
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