[OS X TeX] sagetex use from TeXShop

[Murray Eisenberg]

“NOT work properly” means that if you double-click the SageMath app icon in /Applications, the server never seems to start, and so one cannot use, e.g., they Jupyter interface to the sage kernel.

> On 13 Jun2020, at 2:10 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 13, 2020, at 12:36 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Environment: SageMath-9.1.app, TeXShop 4.44, MacTeX/TeXLive 2020, under macOS 10.15.5.
>> 
>> SageMath-9.1.app will NOT work properly as an app if its name is changed to SageMath.app, even if then the alias /Applications/SageMath-9.1.app/sage is changed to have as target the binary /Applications/SageMath-9.1.app/Contents/MacOS/Sage. 
>> 
>> Hence:
>> 
>> 	(1) the recommendation in TeXShop's About Sage.pdf to rename the app to SageMath.app and then to edit sage.engine to remove “8.7” from the call /Applications/SageMath-8.7.app... cannot be used; and
>> 	(2) the recommendation in TeXShop’s  SageAndLatexmk.pd to rename the app to SageMath.app and then create the link in /usr/local/bin to /Applications/SageMath.app/Contents/Resources/sage/sage and the link in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex sagetex  to /Applications/SageMath.app/Contents/Resources/sage/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/sagetex.sty cannot be used either.
>> 
>> 	Instead, the links have to point to the corresponding files in /Applications/SageMath-9.1.app/Contents/Resources/sage.
>> 
>> 	Or else, if you are putting local files in or else, as I have done then: copy sagetex.sty — from either the Sage distribution itself or, what gives the same version, from a ctan download —  to ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/sagetex.
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> 
> Howdy,
> 
> What does ``Work Properly'' mean. I never use Sage as an app but rather as a packaged way of getting sage and sagetex.sty using symlinks as noted. I have NO problem running that way. When I start up SageMath.app (yes, I renamed it) it opens a couple of web pages; is that what it's supposed to do?
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 
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