[OS X TeX] TeXLive issue

[Alan Litchfield]

Herbert Schulz wrote:

>>>
>>> To make sure that you are using TL2007, set your "TeX Distributions"
>>> preference pane in the OS X system prefs to TL2007. This should be
>>> installed with TL 2007, I think.
>>
>> Hmm haven't got one of those. But I installed from the command line.
>>
>
> Howdy,
>
> Did you install TeX Live 2007 directly or via the MacTeX installer?
> If the latter you should set TeXShop->Preferences->Engine path to
> binaries preference to
>

I install directly. I don't use MacTeX or gwTeX.

>
>> OK, here's something.
>>
>> In the TeXShop preferences I switched from pdftex for the
>> typesetting engine
>> to Personal Script, and in the Personal script field I entered ./
>> pdflatex.
>>
>
> I don't understand this at all! I can't believe that pdflatex is in
> the same directory as the file you want to compile.

I don't know where TeXShop looks to find Personal Scripts. Obviously it looks
in more places than the current directory??

>
>> And you know? It worked.
>>
>
> What does that mean?

It compiled the text file with the setting I mentioned and above, and with the
default settings it didn't.

Alan


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