[OS X TeX] latexit issues

[Owen Densmore]

Hi Peter.  Thanks for the help.

It seems to me that LaTeXiT should not be executing bash, but the initial
bourne shell, sh.

I realize many systems, including Mac, use bash for sh, but in that case,
the shell is called with this invocation flag:
  --norc Do  not  read  and  execute  the	personal  initialization  file
    ~/.bashrc  if  the  shell  is interactive.  This option is on by
    default if the shell is invoked as sh.

Also, I'm not sure avoiding my interactive startup would make a difference
because of these experiments:
1 - First, I created a new account on my Mac and tried LaTeXiT there and it
worked fine.  This shows that my TeX install, which is global, works as it
should.
2 - In my account, I move all the .bashxx files off to the side so that the
system should not be reading them.  When I do this, I do not get an the same
error as above, but I do a tiny error message in the display pane.  It does
not say the usual about see the Log file.  I even tried this with a reboot
just to make sure the initial login didn't also use the .bashxx files.
3 - With the .bashxx files in place, I get the error we've been discussing.

So, the problem must be in my environment somewhere, but doesn't seem to be
in the .bashxx files.

Sigh.

I've "solved" the problem this much: I just use TextMate's LaTeX mode and
PDF previewer.  That works quite well.  So I'm at least on the air. 

   -- Owen


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