[OS X TeX] how enable texdoc?
Murray Eisenberg
murrayeisenberg at gmail.com
Mon Aug 27 17:39:09 EDT 2012
On Aug 27, 2012, at 3:00 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 27, 2012, at 8:45 AM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have MacTeX 2012 installed and running (under Mountain Lion). How do I enable texdoc to work from a command line in Terminal?
>>
>> I find, e.g.:
>>
>> $ texdoc mathmode
>> -bash: texdoc: command not found
>>
>> Is there some reason texdoc is not automatically made available to bash when MacTeX 2012 is installed?
>>
>
> Howdy,
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> What do
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> echo $PATH
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> and
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> which pdflatex
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> and
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> ls -alf /
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> and
>
> ls -alf /usr
>
> return when run in Terminal? Did you update to Mountain Lion after installing MacTeX?
I did update to Mountain Lion after installing MacTeX 2012.
'which pdflatex' gives /usr/texbin/pdflatex. So I added /usr/texbin to my $PATH and now texdoc works as expected. Now 'echo $PATH' gives (for readability, new-lines inserted in output):
/Volumes/MacHD/Applications/Math/Macaulay2-1.4/bin:
/usr/texbin:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.2/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:
/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:
/usr/local/mysql/bin:
/Volumes/MacHD/Applications/Math/Singular/3-1-5/ix86Mac-darwin/:
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin
Also, 'ls -alf /usr/' output includes:
rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 63 Jul 8 11:15 texbin -> /Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Programs/texbin
BTW, that was surprising, since that target texbin of the /usr/texbin symlink is itself a symlink back to:
/Library/TeX/Distributions/.FactoryDefaults/TeXLive-2012/Contents
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