[OS X TeX] can't get Equation Editor to work
Peter Dyballa
Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE
Fri Feb 4 00:11:04 CET 2005
Am 03.02.2005 um 17:28 schrieb Na Li:
> 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.
The reason is that they both are "external" commands, i.e. they are not
built into the "shell", which is in your case sh.
> Perhaps their full paths should be used in EqEditor?
That's not foolproof because a programme can be moved from here to
there. Therefore the UNIX shells have an environment variable by the
name of "PATH." This is a sequence of directory names that tell the
shell in which directories it should look for command line programmes
like rm, mkdir and many more.
The easiest thing is to create a file .profile in your home directory
that should contain at least these two lines:
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
export PATH
You can do this for example by starting the editor pico in Terminal:
/usr/bin/pico ~/.profile
You can start to write from the start. In the footer of this window
you'll see the commands available. The caret "^" stands for pressing
the ctrl key, while simultaneously pressing the O or the X key you save
the file's new contents and quit the programme.
When now invoke Equation Editor it should have learned this lesson. If
not, then there is the file environment.plist in the subdirectory
.MacOSX of your home directory. To edit it invoke in Terminal:
open ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
A graphical application will start, the Property List Editor. Pressing
the triangle near "Root" will show the file's contents. If there is on
the left side a key "PATH" then you can edit the string on the right
side to contain the elements I as above (the colon separates the
elements that build the contents of the PATH variable).
If there is no PATH you have to create it. Click "New Sibling" and
create the PATH key on the left side and fill in on the right the above
mentioned four elements.
Saving and closing should be elementary ...
--
Greetings
Pete
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We don't believe this to be a coincidence. - Jeremy S. Anderson
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