[OS X TeX] TexShop suddenly can't find pdflatex.fmt (even though it's there)

[cfrees at imapmail.org]

On Thu 11th Sep, 2008 at 07:58, Michael Murray seems to have written:

> Watch out if you use Lucida Bright fonts. There is no support and you have to 
> install all the necessary files. There is an excellent post of Bruno
> Voisin's in the list arxiv explaining what to do.
>

Just to add that there are some other things not present in TL 2008
which were in TL 2007. My initial attempts to typeset failed for this
reason. In my case, I think I had to install morehelp and floatflt but
I'm sure there are other gaps, too.

- cfr

> Other than that I installed TeXLive 2008 yesterday and it  all went well. I 
> like the option to switch between the old and new TeX installs in
> system pref's.
>
> Michael
>
>
> On 11 Sep 2008, at 7:43 AM, Nathaniel Pearson wrote:
>
>> which kpsewhich
>> return?
>> 
>> Gives:
>> /usr/texbin/kpsewhich
>> 
>> This is really beginning to sound like your TeX system is really messed up. 
>> I wonder if downloading and installing MacTeX 2008 is a best solution. You 
>> can get it from <http://www.tug.org/mactex/>.
>> 
>> Thanks; I may set it up to download tonight...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Good Luck,
>> 
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>> 
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