<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 2, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>On May 2, 2009, at 11:05 AM, David Derbes wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Hi, Jakob.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I am unable to get it to compile my LaTeX source. It gripes about the location of the pdflatex engine, I think, and then, once I tell it where that is, it crashes. Odd.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">At least one other on the list has had the same issue.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Good luck with your coding.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">David Derbes<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">U of Chicago Laboratory Schools<br></blockquote><br><br>Howdy,<br><br>As I said before, if you are using MacTeX 2007 or 2008 you should be able to simply use /usr/texbin/pdflatex in that preference. That is what I used and it compiled fine. If that doesn't work what does the command<br><br>which pdflatex<br><br>return in Terminal?<br><br>Good Luck,<br><br>Herb Schulz<br>(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)</div></blockquote><div><br></div>Hi, Herb, and thanks for the help. I get</div><div><br></div><div>/usr/texbin/pdflatex</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>David Derbes</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br><br><br>----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br>TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br>List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/</a><br>List Archive: <a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/">http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/</a><br>TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a><br>List Info: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>