[texworks] Biber

[Joseph Wright]

On 20/10/2020 18:49, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
> If my response to Paulo is still correct, I think this is a bug in 
> TeXWorks. It needs to set up a correct PATH variable for child processes 
> that it launches, if they in turn can execute child processes (although 
> there are significant security implications for this). GUI applications 
> on Mac OS X do not inherit environment variables from shell config 
> files: the developer needs to provide an interface to set the 
> environment appropriate (including the PATH); TextMate is a good example 
> of how to do this. Alternately, maybe Joseph could wrap biber in a shell 
> script that sets up a good environment.

For the TeXworks list: Dick Koch (TeXShop developer) gave some info on 
how it works in TeXShop. Rather than try the above, he has a couple of 
dedicated entries in the GUI: one for the TeX binaries, one for 
GhostScript. That's slightly different to how TeXworks operates, of course.

Seems I will have to go with the Terminal-lauch idea or (more likely) 
just run Biber at the Terminal when I need it.

Joseph