<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jul 7, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>On Jul 7, 2008, at 5:59 PM, David Watson wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "><2 min later> That fixed it!! Now the hard part: how do I run without my many .bashrc functions!?</span></blockquote></blockquote><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>See below.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">There is no reason to delete the entire TeXLive distribution just because LaTeXiT doesn't function correctly.<br></blockquote><br>Agreed, but I do want to install the later version of MacTex .. it clearly has changed and has some applications I should be using.<br><br>Do you know if its OK to simply install the new MacTex on top of the earlier one??<br><br>Thanks for the response, you nailed the LaTeXiT problem!<br><br> -- Owen<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>That's because we just discussed this very problem on this list. I will repost the relevant discussion about how to solve the LaTeXiT issue for the moment:</div><div><br></div><div>-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] LatexIt 1.15.0 and MacTex errors<br>Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 11:21:42 +0200<br>From: Pierre Chatelier <<a href="mailto:pierre.chatelier@club-internet.fr">pierre.chatelier@club-internet.fr</a>><br>To: Martin Costabel <<a href="mailto:costabel@wanadoo.fr">costabel@wanadoo.fr</a>><br>CC: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <<a href="mailto:macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu">macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu</a>><br><br><br>Hello,<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Right! So the question is, why LaTeXiT is creating a login or<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">interactive shell> .<br></blockquote></blockquote><br>My concern with LaTeXiT is to make it work "as if it was launched from<br>the command line", because most LaTeX users do customize<br>theire .profile, ~bashrc with variables like TEXINPUTS. And launching<br>a login shell with some options help me get the environment.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Can't harm you, you are a tcsh user? Well, try to use latexit ;-)<br></blockquote><br>But 1.15.0 has a bug with shell functions because I have used a stupid<br>method to analyze the environment.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Honestly, this is a serious bug in latexit.<br></blockquote><br>Right ! Fortunately I have fixed that in 1.15.1<br>But I have not released it yet, because I am waiting for the Sparkle<br>framework update.<br>You can try a beta, though :<br><a href="http://ktd.club.fr/programmation/fichiers/LaTeXiT-1_15_1_beta_11.dmg">http://ktd.club.fr/programmation/fichiers/LaTeXiT-1_15_1_beta_11.dmg</a><br><br><blockquote type="cite">The problem this tries to solve is classical on MacOSX: How to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">transmit the user shell login environment from a MacOS app started<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">via the Finder? Some apps use "/usr/bin/login -fp" to start scripts<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">with the right environment.<br></blockquote><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></div></div></body></html>