[OS X TeX] set environment variables for applications

[Adam Maxwell]

On 25 May, 2004, at 11:50, Peter Cholak wrote:

> As for the variable I want to set: TEXBIB is a nonstandard variable.  
> I have never seen this variable used in any tex installation.  It can 
> changed to anything. It should not infer with tex.

This may well be the case; however, we ran across a problem with 
BibDesk <http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/BibDeskTips>.  
One of the developers had set BIBINPUTS in his environment.plist, and 
it took him a long time to figure out why BibDesk wasn't displaying TeX 
previews.  Troubleshooting this kind of stuff is non-trivial, 
especially via e-mail.

-- 
Adam

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