[OS X TeX] Plotting functions and $PATH in TeXShop

[Franck Pastor]

Le 15-janv.-06 à 22:33, Richard Koch a écrit :

> Folks,
>
> TeXShop has a preference which points to the TeX binary
> folder. The default is /usr/local/tetex/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin- 
> current.
> Unfortunately, this preference cannot be a list of locations because
> TeXShop concatenates it with the name of the binary to call
> the binary. For example, to typeset with pdflatex, TeXShop
> typically calls /usr/local/tetex/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/ 
> pdflatex.
>
> One way to add other search locations to $PATH when calling a
> TeX binary is to create a new "engine". The default XeLaTeX engine
> is
>
> -------------------
> #!/bin/tcsh
>
> set path= ($path /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current / 
> usr/local/bin)
> xelatex  "$1"
> -------------------
>
> so by modifying the path to include /sw/bin and changing xelatex to  
> pdflatex
> you'd have a TeX which knows about /sw/bin.
>
> Other solutions like symbolic links suggested in this thread also  
> work; I suppose
> a new preference in TeXShop would be nice.
>
> Dick
> koch at math.uoregon.edu

Thanks for those precisions !


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