[OS X TeX] TextMate & LaTeX woes

[Alan Litchfield]

On Aug 3, 2005, at 8:49 AM, Mika Luoma-aho wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> having trouble running LaTeX commands on TextMate 1.1b15 on TL2005.  
> It used to work before I made the move TL2005 and/or TM was  
> updated. When I run the command LaTeX and view, I get:
> Compiling LaTeX...
>
> /bin/bash: line 33: pdflatex: command not found
> Success
> Error: PDF file not written to disk
>

Currently your PATH in /etc/profile probably reads:

PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"
export PATH

You can add the directory for latex by changing it to read:

PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/TeX/bin/powerpc-darwin6.8/"
export PATH

I would suggest you use vi to add the path, but that is just my  
choice in text editors. In which case you enter on a Terminal prompt:

sudo vi profile

Enter your admin password when prompted. Then in vi press i to enter  
INSERT mode. Use the arrow keys to move the cursor to where you want  
to enter the text. Type in the additional text and hit ESC. Then  
type :wq which will write the changes to disk, then quit vi.

You will need to restart the application, but not the computer.

HIH Alan
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