[texhax] latex2e usage update

[Axel E. Retif]

On  21 Jan, 2011, at 23:47, walt burkhard wrote:

> I have installed  MacTex 2010 now.   My latex2e experiences remain unchanged.   Here is what I have working in an X command-line window

Do you mean xterm from X11? If so, does Terminal.app show the same behavior ---that is, do you have to sudo also for latex to find article.cls?

Anyway, here is my output from xterm:

bash-3.2$ which latex
/usr/texbin/latex
bash-3.2$ kpsewhich article.cls
/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
bash-3.2$ which dvips
/usr/texbin/dvips


> [...] I simply removed the 2010 folder in /usr/local/texlive when installing MacTex.   The umask is 2.

I don't know what to say ---here is my output

ll /usr/local/texlive/
drwxr-xr-x  10 root  wheel         340 Nov 10 20:59 ./
drwxr-xr-x  12 root  wheel         408 Nov  3 00:53 ../
drwxr-xr-x  22 root  wheel         748 May 13  2010 2009/
drwxr-xr-x  23 root  wheel         782 Jan  9 23:37 2010/
drwxr-xr-x  10 root  wheel         340 Jan  9 23:37 texmf-local/

Do you, by any chance, have a ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist?

> 	a)	tex seems to run fine.  I normally only use tex and dvips as well as ps2pdf I installed separately.

??? dvips is installed by TeXLive ---and hence MacTeX (see above).

I still think the TeX on Mac OS mailing list is an appropriate place to help you with this if you're interested.

Best

Axel