[OS X TeX] Re: [texhax] installed MacTeX, unable to typeset anything

[Victor Ivrii]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Jacob Wegelin <jacobwegelin at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> Recently, I joined TUG and the members at tug.org list. Someone on that list
> recommended I post my current questions to texhax at tug.org instead.  The Web,
> on the other hand (http://www.tug.org/mactex/2010/support/emailform/)
>  suggests I post to mactex-support at tug.org. Are these lists equivalent?
>
> Do I need to sign up for texhax at tug.org and/or for mactex-support at tug.org?
> Or does one just post to them?

General TeX questions better to be asked at texhax but MacOSX specific
questions on
MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu

Looks like your MacTeX (is it 2010?) was not installed properly. Try
to reinstall it.

Can you see in System Preferences "TeX Distribution"?
Do you have /usr/local/texlive  ?
Do you have /usr/texbin -> texbin ->
/Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Programs/texbin
Do you have /usr/texbin in your path?


>
> Please let me know if should post the following questions to a different
> forum.
>
> I work on Mac OS 10.6.8. In addition to the graphical user interface, I
> constantly use the unix bash shell, via the so-called "Terminal"
> application.
>
> Incidentally, although I'm new to MacTex, I am not new to LaTeX, just rusty.
>  I used LaTeX in the 1990s, which was installed on unix machines at the
> University of Washington (Seattle).  I wrote a dissertation in it although I
> never learned how to modify any of the settings (font, margins, etc.).
>
> At that time, I edited my files in vi. Now I habitually use vim.
>
> Yesterday I downloaded
>
> MacTeX.mpkg.zip [ approximately 1.6G - 08 September 2010 ]
>
> and today I unzipped and installed it, as shown here:
>
> /Applications/TeX> ls -lat
> total 1016
> drwxr-xr-x   3 somtech  staff     102 Jul 18 14:10 TeX Live Utility.app/
> drwxr-xr-x   3 somtech  staff     102 Jul 18 14:10 TeXShop.app/
> drwxr-xr-x   3 somtech  staff     102 Jul 18 14:10 TeXworks.app/
> drwxr-xr-x   3 somtech  staff     102 Jul 18 14:10 BibDesk.app/
> drwxr-xr-x   3 somtech  staff     102 Jul 18 14:10 LaTeXiT.app/
> drwxrwxr-x  13 root     admin     442 Jul 18 14:10 ./
> drwxrwxr-x+ 90 root     admin    3060 Jul 18 14:10 ../
> drwxr-xr-x   7 somtech  staff     238 Sep  7  2010 Excalibur-4.0.7/
> drwxr-xr-x  14 somtech  staff     476 Sep  7  2010 LuaTeX-and-XeTeX/
> -rw-r--r--   1 somtech  staff   42834 Jul 21  2010 Eps-and-PdfLaTeX.pdf
> -rw-r--r--   1 somtech  staff   62039 May 28  2010 What Is Installed.pdf
> -rw-r--r--   1 somtech  staff   71091 Apr 26  2010 TeX Live Manager.pdf
> -rw-r--r--   1 somtech  staff  334681 Apr 26  2010 READ ME FIRST.pdf
> /Applications/TeX>
>
>
> (A) In spite of installing it, I do not find the software on the command
> line. The command
>
> which pdflatex
>
> returns nothing, as do the following variants:
>
> which pdfLaTeX
>
> which pdfLatex
>
> Similarly, the following turn up nothing:
>
> which pdfTeX
>
> which pdftex
>
> (B) What's up with TexShop? I copied "my first LaTeX document" from
> http://www.cs.wright.edu/~jslater/mac-tex/mac-tex-intro/mactexintro.html
> into TexShop and hit the "typeset" button, and got an "environment lslisting
> undefined" error.
>
> Per the READ ME FIRST file, I have checked and confirmed under Preferences,
> Engine tab, Path Settings that the first path setting is /usr/texbin .
>
> It said "type H <return> for immediate help" but when I did so, it said
> "your command was ignored."
>
> (C) I also tried using LaTexit. First, per the READ ME FIRST pdf, I checked
> that the paths were correct in the Composition module.  (There was no need
> to change them). Then I copied "my first document" from the url listed below
> into the editor. Many of the latex tags were in blue, suggesting that
> LaTeXit recognized them as latex tags/code, but the last couple were not,
> suggesting something had gone wrong.
>
> I did File, Latex it, and got a slew of errors as follows:
>
> line 12 paragraph ended before \align was complete
>
> line 12 missing $ inserted
>
> etc.
>
> Thanks for any pointers
>
> Jake Wegelin
>
>
>
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