<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Help wanted! I had to upgrade my iMac to </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">macOS Catalina 10.15.7. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">My old Texshop no longer works and had to be upgraded. I went to the TEX users group web page</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://tug.org/mactex/" class="">https://tug.org/mactex/</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">and used the installer to put MacTeX on my computer; I got the message that </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“the installation was successful.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">For a test run, the program opened to the familiar TEX page. When I tried to typeset a file, the console appeared, but nothing happened. In particular, there was no error message and NO auxiliary files were produced. To make sure that I was doing everything correctly, I tried typesetting an old file that I knew had no errors, but again there was no action — no error message. I then tried “Latexit”, and got the error message ”unexpected error, please see 'LaTeX> Display last log’ ”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Source :</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">\documentclass[10pt]{article}</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">\usepackage[usenames]{color} %used for font color</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">\usepackage{amssymb} %maths</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">\usepackage{amsmath} %maths</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} %useful to type directly diacritic characters</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">\pagestyle{empty} \begin{document}\begin{align*}Test run</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">\end{align*}</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">\end{document}</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">--------------- processing pdflatex ---------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">#!/bin/sh</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">export TMPDIR="/var/folders/fc/wd0gl2x56w37l6yx0wpzm_gr0000gp/T/" 1>/dev/null 2>&1 </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">export SSH_AUTH_SOCK="/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.J367oV3Ego/Listeners" 1>/dev/null 2>&1 </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">export SHELL="/bin/tcsh" 1>/dev/null 2>&1 </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">export HOME="/Users/fisher" 1>/dev/null 2>&1 </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">export XPC_SERVICE_NAME="fr.chachatelier.pierre.LaTeXiT.2396" 1>/dev/null 2>&1 </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">export XPC_FLAGS="0x0" 1>/dev/null 2>&1 </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">export __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING="0x1F6:0x0:0x0" 1>/dev/null 2>&1 </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">export PATH="/sw/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/texbin:/usr/local/sbin:/sw/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin:/sw/sbin:/sw/local/sbin:/sbin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/sw/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/sw/usr/sbin:/sw/usr/local/bin:/sw/bin" 1>/dev/null 2>&1 </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">export LOGNAME="fisher" 1>/dev/null 2>&1 </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">export USER="fisher" 1>/dev/null 2>&1 </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">cd "/var/folders/fc/wd0gl2x56w37l6yx0wpzm_gr0000gp/T/LaTeXiT-2.16.5"</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current/pdflatex -file-line-error -interaction nonstopmode /var/folders/fc/wd0gl2x56w37l6yx0wpzm_gr0000gp/T/LaTeXiT-2.16.5/latexit-1.tex 1>|/var/folders/fc/wd0gl2x56w37l6yx0wpzm_gr0000gp/T/LaTeXiT-2.16.5/latexit-task-stdout.IVxck5Ak.log 2>|/var/folders/fc/wd0gl2x56w37l6yx0wpzm_gr0000gp/T/LaTeXiT-2.16.5/latexit-task-stderr.TXWQNOcN.log </dev/null</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">--------------- error while processing pdflatex ---------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">What could be wrong?</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Chris</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; " class="">J. Chris Fisher Telephone: (216)-938-7148</div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">2616 Edgehill Road </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; " class="">Cleveland Heights, OH 44106-2806 </div></div></span></div></span>
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