[OS X TeX] Re: ``/usr/texbin/pdflatex´´ does not exist

[Richard Koch]

Folks,

On Apr 11, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Joseph C. Slater PE, PhD wrote:

> It seems to me, then, that macports should be written off as  
> incompatible with TeXShop, etc, as self-contained seems to be the  
> goal (or more accurately, only self compatible). Someone interested  
> in using MacPorts would need to then create a TeXShop port for  
> macports and maintain it. Likewise for anything else not otherwise  
> compatible.
> Joe

I may be partially responsible for this thread. I was trying to help a  
user through private email and some of our conversation leaked out  
onto the list. The user was trying to reconfigure TeXShop for the  
MacPorts distribution of TeX (which is easy) and trying to typeset a  
Scientific Word document containing illustrations (which is harder).  
It took several emails before I understood the Scientific Word  
connection. Apologies.

As far as I know, ALL of the standard front ends and TeX utilities can  
easily be configured for the MacPort's distribution of TeX.

Dick
koch at math.uoregon.edu