[texworks] Biber

[Joseph Wright]

On 20/10/2020 19:25, Joseph Wright wrote:
> 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

Ah, sorry, re-reading I guess Adam was suggesting more or less what 
TeXShop does, just expressed slightly differently. For reference, 
TextMate has a small dialogue that covers a few variables (see attached).

Joseph
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