[OS X TeX] Scientific Wordprocessing on MacOSX

[Herbert Schulz]

On May 20, 2013, at 2:06 PM, Iraj Kalantari <I-Kalantari at wiu.edu> wrote:

> Hi Andreas,
> 
> Can you please elaborate (for the non-expert) these few lines you wrote:
> 
>> However, Cassiopeia can work with any LaTeX distribution. One just has to edit the two scripts
>> 
>> 	
> 	/Library/Frameworks/SDMFoundation.framework/Resources/generateLaTeXPDF
>> 	
> 	/Library/Frameworks/SDMFoundation.framework/Resources/generateLaTeXPDFWithIndex
>> 
>> that have content like
>> 
>> #!/bin/csh
>> setenv PATH /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:...
>> pdflatex $1
>> bibtex $1
>> pdflatex $1
>> pdflatex $1
>> 
>> and add the path to the bin directory of the LaTeX distribution in use.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Iraj.
> 

Howdy,

That must be a rather ancient script! For any recent MacTeX installed system on should use /usr/texbin:$PATH for the PATH variable. Also, doesn't csh (most folks use bash nowadays---another item that shows the age of this script) is path rather than PATH? Not only that, there are really nice ways to automate the running of pdflatex, bibtex, makeindex, etc.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)