[OS X TeX] Staying on the right PATH (or something)

[Herbert Schulz]

On Nov 14, 2007, at 8:50 AM, Morten Høgholm wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Forgive me if the following is just me being naïve.
>
>
> I am trying to support some users using Texmaker on both *nix, OS X  
> and Windows. In order to do so, it must be configured correctly and  
> this is where the fun begins... We want to avoid giving a full path  
> to the executable as often the system knows what to do with a file.  
> On OS X we have
>  open %.pdf
> which will then do as expected. Similarly, we discovered that on  
> Windows we could use
>  cmd /C start %.pdf
> and this then does the same as open. Good.
>
> On Windows, latex and friends are added to the PATH by MiKTeX and so  
> one can call it as
>  latex %.tex
> This works on *nix as well but not on OS X even though latex is of  
> course in the PATH. Can anybody explain to me why this is? TeXShop  
> expects the path to the executable as well, right? And what does an  
> application like Aquamacs do differently, since it just has a call  
> to latex and doesn't care where it is located?
>
> I would appreciate it if someone could enlighten me in this matter.
>
> TIA
> -- 
> Morten


Howdy,

Hmmm... what is the path you get in Terminal? What shell is being used  
and is it called as a login shell? Do you have a ~/.MacOSX/ 
environment.plist file that is setting a path? What  
about .profile, .bash_profile, etc?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)