[TxMt] Latex not found

[Brad Miller]

Ben,

Can you run pdflatex from terminal?
What result do you get if you type the command:   which pdflatex

If you installed via MacTeX then the proper path should be /usr/ 
texbin  which is one of the places the bundle looks.

Brad

On Dec 12, 2007, at 8:35 AM, Ben Wooliscroft wrote:

> Hi James
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately it still says "pdflatex not  
> found".
> I've googled myself into utter confusion trying to find out what I  
> should
> put in the environment.plist file, but nothing has come close to  
> working.
>
> The real question is why did it stop working in the first place and  
> how can
> it be fixed at the bundle level?
>
> Any help welcomed
>
> Ben
>
>
>
>
> On 12/12/07 1:12 PM, "James Nugent" <jen20 at bath.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had a similar problem a couple of days ago, and fixed it by  
>> creating
>> the file environment.plist in a folder named .MacOSX in my home
>> directory, with the following contents:
>>
>> { PATH = "/sw/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"; }
>>
>> I think it required a logout/in (or possibly a restart).
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12 Dec 2007, at 12:05, Ben Wooliscroft wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've enjoyed using TextMate a great deal and don't want to use the
>>> other
>>> Latex editors on my computer, but:
>>> - after updating to Leopard all was okay
>>> - I installed the latex Leopard fix and...
>>> - TextMate doesn't find pdflatex and suggests that the path is not
>>> there or
>>> Latex isn't installed
>>> - I know that Latex is installed because Texshop continues to find
>>> it and
>>> run it happily
>>> - I've updated (via a complete re-install of Mactex) Latex, but it
>>> still
>>> isn't found by Textmate and is by Texshop
>>> - I've looked at the manual and see that I should update/modify the
>>> path,
>>> but I'm not sure where to and how to update it.
>>>
>>> Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated,
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Ben
>>>
>>>
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