[OS X TeX] newbie question on fonts motivated by LaTeXiT
dan at geer.org
dan at geer.org
Fri Oct 26 23:14:56 EDT 2007
Responding to various advice, I have modified both my .cshrc
(for my tcsh interactive shell) and .profile (in case LaTeXiT or
TeX uses that) to make the directory /usr/texbin come as the
absolute first item in the search path for either shell. This
explicitly overrides Fink's standard /sw/bin/init.csh and
/sw/bin/init.sh which just as explicitly make /sw/bin and
/sw/sbin come first in any $path. I have also deleted the
file /sw/bin/xdv2pdf so that regardless of $path order it
cannot be found which, nominally, makes putting /usr/texbin
first in $path irrelevant.
Nevertheless, LaTeXiT "Display last log" still reports
sh: line 1: xdv2pdf: command not found
despite both shells finding it in the right place
csh% which xdv2pdf
/usr/texbin/xdv2pdf
sh-2.05b$ which xdv2pdf
/usr/texbin/xdv2pdf
This concludes this round of play, and thanks to all for the
help. My deadline passes approximately now and so TeX no
longer matters for another 90 days. If I figure it out, I'll
report back; if not, I'll not bother you again. As the
maintainer/author of LaTeXiT privately said,
> That it was working with previous LaTeXiT and not with a
> recent one can be due to a better handling of environment
> variables, that make LaTeXiT more sensitive to some
> misconfigurations.
I accept that features of the environment are deeply at
issue, and so I will continue to look for what RTFM means
in this case.
Over and out,
--dan
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