[OS X TeX] latexit issues

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 15.06.2008 um 17:12 schrieb Jan Anderssen:

> maybe it'd be worth checking if you have a ~/.MacOSX/ 
> environment.plist file, and if so, if temporarily moving that out  
> of the way helps.


This won't help – at least in Mac OS X before Leopard (10.5). If the  
contents of ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist is faulty, then the whole  
system wouldn't be able to work correctly. It's this file that  
initiates the environment of *all* processes in Mac OS X. Removing or  
changing it while still logged on does not necessarily change  
anything – because processes have parents from which they inherit  
their environment. And when the parent does not change, then the  
child can't change. So a change to ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist has to  
be followed by logging off and in again in order to see the change  
has happened.

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Greetings

   Pete

There's something the technicians need to learn from the artists. If  
it isn't aesthetically pleasing, it's probably wrong.