[OS X TeX] Switcher 1.1

Claus Gerhardt gerhardt at math.uni-heidelberg.de
Wed Nov 29 08:56:55 EST 2006


The path in TeXShop should be set to /usr/local/texprograms in  
Preferences/Engine

Claus


On Nov 29, 2006, at 14:40, Claus Gerhardt wrote:

> After switching (via Switcher) to texlive2005, that I installed  
> myself from the TeXLive iso, though I assume that the MacTeX  
> installation will give the same result, the path to tex is
>
> /usr/local/texlive2005/bin/powerpc-darwin
>
> Inside this of this folder are the different tex binaries, where  
> the main one is called pdfetex, and the others like pdflatex are  
> only symlinks pointing to pdfetex
>
> riemann:~ claus$ readlink /usr/local/texprograms/pdflatex
> pdfetex
>
> The name power-pc-apple-darwin-current isn't used by TeXLive (TUG)  
> only by Gerben's distributions. Click on Switcher's reveal button,  
> then you will see the path to active tex as defined by /usr/local/ 
> texprograms.
>
> Claus
>
>
>
> On Nov 29, 2006, at 12:34, Michael Kubovy wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In the past I used teTeX and Gerben Wierda's ii2.app. It was the  
>> best of times.
>>
>> After all the discussion on this list, I installed TeXLive2005.   
>> This was a hasty and foolish decision I see, but given the  
>> extraordinary fiducial responsibility of the developpers of LaTeX  
>> tools in general and tools for the Mac in particular, not  
>> uncharacteristic of a trusting person.
>>
>> Currently pdflatex seems to reside in
>> 	/opt/local/bin
>> If I set that as TeXShop's path setting, then tools I took for  
>> granted, such as apa.cls, which still lives in
>> 	/Users/mk/Library/texmf/tex/latex/misc/apa.cls
>> or apacite.sty, which is in
>> 	/Users/mk/Library/texmf/tex/latex/apacite/apacite.sty
>> are not found by TeXShop.
>>
>> If I use the default setting in TeXShop, it tells me that
>> 	/usr/local/teTeX/bin/power-pc-apple-darwin-current/pdflatex
>> does not exist.
>>
>> Switcher hasn't solved my problem.
>>
>> Please help.
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