[texhax] Error Message

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Wed Dec 16 22:40:21 CET 2009


On Dec 16, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Axel E. Retif wrote:

> Kasper,
> 
> If by ``simple example'' you mean something with Latin and math characters, I don't understand why pLaTeX is getting in the way. Maybe you have some old
> 
> ~/Library/TeXShop    (directory)
> 
> and
> 
> ~/Library/Preferences/TeXShop.plist
> 
> If you move them out of your Library, TeXShop will rebuild them the next time you launch it. Anyway, I'm forwarding your message to Richard Koch.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Axel
> ----------------------------------------------------
> On  16 Dec, 2009, at 07:13, Kasper Masschaele wrote:
> 
>> hello,
>> 
>> i installed texshop today from the mactex 2009 bundle, but when i start a simple example, i have the same error message:
>> 
>> /Users/kaspermasschaeler/Library/TeXShop/bin/platex2pdf-euc: line 12: ptex:
>>> command not found
>> can you please tell me how can i solve this problem? Because I donot understand your answer :
>> 
>> Indeed, /Users/<your-short-name>/Library/TeXShop/bin/platex2pdf-euc has
>> 
>> export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin
>> 
>> and /usr/local/teTeX doesn't exist any more in MacTeX; this was used  
>> in gwTeX, which indeed had pTeX.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Many many thanks!
>> 
>> Kasper
>> 

Howdy,

1)I don't think p(la)tex is part of TeX Live.
2)That script in ~/TeXShop/bin/ is very old and the PATH it sets is for an old tetex (older gwTeX?) distribution.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)





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