[OS X TeX] Different results with TeXLive intel/ppc

Gerben Wierda Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl
Tue Nov 7 14:33:29 EST 2006


You are probably not syncing the /etc/profile file (and others) that  
determine the PATH.

G

On Nov 7, 2006, at 19:48 , Simon Spiegel wrote:

>
> On 07.11.2006, at 19:06, Maarten Sneep wrote:
>
>> On 7-nov-2006, at 18:53, Simon Spiegel wrote:
>>
>>> Since I don't have access to the intel machine, I can't check  
>>> this, but I'm pretty sure I selected A4 when I installed it, but  
>>> I'll check that (unfortunately, I wont access the iMac before  
>>> thursday). Anyway, I use a costum paper size with geometry, would  
>>> the paper size selected with the i-installer have any influence  
>>> on this?
>>
>> it shouldn't have, hence the question whether you explicitly set  
>> the paper size (within the LaTeX source).
>>
>> Run a diff on the log-file nonetheless, it does contain version  
>> numbers, and should point you in the right direction. The version  
>> difference may be in some core latex file.
>
> Ok, this is really strange: comparing the logs shows that TeX on  
> the iMac uses /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/ instead /usr/ 
> local/TeXLive/texmf.texlive/tex/l although I have set up TeXLive on  
> this machine today. So there are several packages with different  
> versions, among them babel, microtype, mathpazo, color, varioref,  
> caption, subfig, hyperref. I guess that will account for the  
> differences. So the problem seems indeed to be the setup of the  
> iMac, I'll have to check that.
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> simon
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