[OS X TeX] Problem with minted and TeXShop

Sun Jun 1 01:09:38 EDT 2025

David,

Just got back from the Eugene opera.

Could you please send me the log file when you typeset and get an error.

Dick
koch at uoregon.edu

> On May 31, 2025, at 6:39 PM, David Goldenberg <Goldenberg at biology.utah.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dick and Herb,
>   Thanks very much for your replies and suggestions.  
> 
> When I use the minimal example that Dick used, I see the same error in TeXShop.  But, I have discovered that if I override the error, by typing return in th console, things work as expected!  
> 
> Yes, the file in /Library/TeX/texbin is latexminted. But this is an alias to a python script, latexminted.py which is in /usr/local/texlive/2025/texmf-dist/scripts/minted
> 
> The directory /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c does exist, but it is empty.
> 
> At this point, I can typset files using minted from TeXShop, but it still seems that something isn’t quite right.
> 
> Thanks again,
> David
> --
> School of Biological Sciences
> University of Utah
> 257 South 1400 East
> Salt Lake City, UT  84112-0840
> 
> 
> E-mail: goldenberg at biology.utah.edu
> Web page: http://goldenberg.biology.utah.edu
> 
>> 
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 21:01:30 +0000
>> From: David Goldenberg <goldenberg at biology.utah.edu>
>> To: "macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu" <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
>> Subject: [OS X TeX] Problem with minted and TeXShop
>> Message-ID: <CC049A4C-1301-4A1B-8B63-F577FF4CCF59 at biology.utah.edu>
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>> 
>> Hi,
>>  Having learned about minted in a post to this group last month, I have been exploring it a bit.  I have tried it with three different Macs with very similar, but not identical configurations.  On two, I was able to get it to work without much trouble, but on the third, I am getting this error when I try to typeset a LaTeX file with minted from TeXShop:
>> 
>> ./minted_test.tex:61: Package minted Error: minted v3+ executable is not installed or is not added to PATH; or MiKTeX is being used with -aux-directory or -output-directory without setting a TEXMF_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY environment variable.
>> 
>> But, I can typset the file using pdflatex from the command line without any obvious problems. So, I presume this has something to do with how TeXShop is looking for what it needs.
>> 
>> In TeXShop, the path is set to:
>> /Library/TeX/texbin
>> and the LaTeX engine is set to:
>> pdflatex --file-line-error --synctex=1 -shell-escape
>> 
>> The latexminted.py executable is located in:
>> /Library/TeX/texbin 
>> (The file is an alias to /usr/local/texlive/2025/texmf-dist/scripts/minted/latexminted.py)
>> 
>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> David Goldenberg
>> 
>> --
>> School of Biological Sciences
>> University of Utah
>> 257 South 1400 East
>> Salt Lake City, UT  84112-0840
>> 
>> 
>> E-mail: goldenberg at biology.utah.edu
>> Web page: http://goldenberg.biology.utah.edu
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 22:06:46 +0000
>> From: Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu>
>> To: TeX on Mac OS X <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Problem with minted and TeXShop
>> Message-ID: <59B4772C-9573-47D1-A66C-956B170C5676 at uoregon.edu>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>> 
>> David,
>> 
>> I have never used minted and I'm going to an event later this evening.
>> 
>> I looked at the minted documentation, which in section 4.2 contains a
>> "minimal complete example."
>> 
>> Here is the code:
>> 
>> 
>> \documentclass{article}
>> 
>> \usepackage{minted}
>> 
>> \usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
>> 
>> \begin{document}
>> 
>> \begin{minted}[bgcolor=Beige, bgcolorpadding=0.5em]{c}
>> 
>> int main() {
>> 
>> printf("hello, world");
>> 
>> return 0;
>> 
>> }
>> 
>> \end{minted}
>> 
>> \end{document}
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I opened TeXShop and typeset this exact code in pdflatex without doing anything
>> 
>> else.  I typeset twice and got exactly the claimed output. Moreover,
>> 
>> by default TeXShop does not set --shell-escape, so TeXShop did not call shell escape.
>> 
>> 
>> Perhaps you could send a longer example we could test.
>> 
>> 
>> Dick Koch
>> 
>> 
>> -------------------------
>> 
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 22:08:56 +0000
>> From: Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu>
>> To: TeX on Mac OS X <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Problem with minted and TeXShop
>> Message-ID: <097FA40C-7DC4-4B85-BA2F-24A05B7ABE46 at uoregon.edu>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>> 
>> PS:
>> 
>> I keep my machine "plain vanilla." I don't install macports or other such
>> software, and I don't set any environmental variables.
>> 
>> Dick
>> 
>> On May 30, 2025, at 3:06?PM, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Message: 4
>> Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 20:10:15 -0500
>> From: Herbert Schulz <herbs2 at mac.com>
>> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Problem with minted and TeXShop
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>> 
>> 
>>> On May 30, 2025, at 4:01?PM, David Goldenberg <goldenberg at biology.utah.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The latexminted.py executable is located in:
>>> /Library/TeX/texbin
>> 
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> I assume you mean The latexminted executable is located in:
>> /Library/TeX/texbin not latexminted.py.
>> 
>> Good Luck,
>> 
>> Herb Schulz
>> herbs2 at mac.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> Message: 5
>> Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 20:15:24 -0500
>> From: Herbert Schulz <herbs2 at mac.com>
>> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Problem with minted and TeXShop
>> Message-ID: <C11259FE-1A81-41DF-A0BB-C4B8BA478AD5 at mac.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Howdy (again),
>> 
>> Also. do you happen to have a texmf.cnf file located in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c? Run
>> 
>> ls /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
>> 
>> in Terminal and see if texmf.cnf comes up. (The command may fail if that folder doesn't exist.)
>> 
>> Good Luck,
>> 
>> Herb Schulz
>> herbs2 at mac.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
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