[OS X TeX] [aquamacs-devel] Aquamacs & El Capitan

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Oct 30, 2015, at 6:44 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Oct 29, 2015, at 9:17 PM, Ettore Aldrovandi <ealdrov at mail.math.fsu.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Oct 29, 2015, at 19:38, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Howdy,
>>> 
>>> I have Aquamacs 3.2 on my system. For some reason it doesn't seem to pick up the changed PATH variable. The correct path is shown in Terminal.app so the system is using the /etc/paths.d/TeX file which contains /Library/TeX/texbin.
>> 
>> It would be interesting to see what fails and how.  Does it not find the tex binaries to execute, or  is it something else?
>> 
>> If you launch Aquamacs and you do (M is Meta, typically it would be the Option key):
>> 
>> 	M-x customize-variable RET exec-path RET
>> 
>> what do you see?
>> 
>> —Ettore
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> It did have /Library/TeX/texbin which it obviously picked up from the system! Now, why didn't it execute pdflatex on the file? It isn't a problem with PATH!
> 
> I just discovered ^C^L and it seems to be trying to execute pdfpdflatex rather than pdflatex. Now, how do I fix that?
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)

Howdy,

All is well in Aquamacs land! As I said above, the PATH is actually fine. The problem seems to have been that the latex command was changed to pdflatex and pdf mode (terminology problem?) was turned on so an additional pdf was prepended to pdflatex. I changed the pdflatex back to latex and all seems to be well now.

Not knowing what to look for and then not knowing how to get to change it was my real problem.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)