[OS X TeX] New Editor.

[Herbert Schulz]

On May 1, 2009, at 10:03 PM, Iraj Kalantari wrote:

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> On May 1, 2009, at 9:53 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
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>> On May 1, 2009, at 9:14 PM, Iraj Kalantari wrote:
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>>> Regretfully, your latest suggestion, Herb, of setting the pdflatex  
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>>> /usr/texbin/pdflatex
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>>> crashes on TexLive 2008 + OS 10.5.6.
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>>> I must have something non-standard.
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>>> Iraj.
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>> Howdy,
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>> Are you using TeX Live or MacTeX? MacTeX sets up a symbolic link  
>> structure and a TeX Distribution System Preference Pane so that / 
>> usr/texbin points, indirectly through the structure, to the proper  
>> TeX binaries. Do you have the Preference Pane? If not, where is  
>> your TeX distribution?
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>> Good Luck,
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>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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> When I check my System Preferences and then Tex Distribution, I see:
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> <Picture 1.png>
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> I am not sure what you mean by "Do you have the Preference Pane?"
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> Iraj.


Howdy,

That is the preference pane I was referring to. That means you have  
MacTeX (TeX Live +) installed. Could you go into Terminal and execute

which pdflatex

and let me know what it reports?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)