[OS X TeX] newbie question on fonts motivated by LaTeXiT

[dan at geer.org]

Responding to various advice, I have modified both my .cshrc
(for my tcsh interactive shell) and .profile (in case LaTeXiT or
TeX uses that) to make the directory /usr/texbin come as the
absolute first item in the search path for either shell.  This
explicitly overrides Fink's standard /sw/bin/init.csh and
/sw/bin/init.sh which just as explicitly make /sw/bin and
/sw/sbin come first in any $path.  I have also deleted the
file /sw/bin/xdv2pdf so that regardless of $path order it
cannot be found which, nominally, makes putting /usr/texbin
first in $path irrelevant.

Nevertheless, LaTeXiT "Display last log" still reports

  sh: line 1: xdv2pdf: command not found

despite both shells finding it in the right place

  csh% which xdv2pdf
  /usr/texbin/xdv2pdf

  sh-2.05b$ which xdv2pdf
  /usr/texbin/xdv2pdf

This concludes this round of play, and thanks to all for the
help.  My deadline passes approximately now and so TeX no
longer matters for another 90 days.  If I figure it out, I'll
report back; if not, I'll not bother you again.  As the
maintainer/author of LaTeXiT privately said,

 > That it was working with previous LaTeXiT and not with a
 > recent one can be due to a better handling of environment
 > variables, that make LaTeXiT more sensitive to some
 > misconfigurations.

I accept that features of the environment are deeply at
issue, and so I will continue to look for what RTFM means
in this case.

Over and out,

--dan


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