[TxMt] Re: modifying environmental variables for latex

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Oct 24, 2008, at 7:03 AM, Dan Lussier wrote:

> Thanks for the info.  I guess I assumed that it was TEXINPUT as I
> have done in the past for configuring the shell to process LaTex from
> the command line.  I would suggest that this be more clearly noted in
> the TM documentation so that this type of confusion can be avoided in
> the future.
>
> Also - when I was trying to implement TEXINPUTS I initially had a
> problem that my effort to add to what I assume is an existing
> variable within TM simply overwrote the whole thing.  The result was
> that pdftex was no longer finding even the simplest package.  Again,
> contrary to what I have done in the shell the typical bash shell
> syntax of $VAR:[additon to var] didn't work at all.  I had success
> though when I found the page (link below) on nabble that indicated
> that to append to existing variables you need to have a leading colon
> on the path like :[additoin to var].  This is another point that
> would be good to include more clearly in the TM documentation.
>
> http://www.nabble.com/latex-svn:-TEXINPUTS-not-respected- 
> td8763938.html
>
> I had just one more related follow up question:
>
> - Is there any way other than redefining the variables from within
> the preferences dialogue to control the $TEXINPUTS  variable on a per
> file or per TM project basis?  This would be handy because often
> times latex projects will require different paths to search along,
> particularly in terms of graphics.

Project files can have their own environment variables (you can set  
them up from the project drawer). Though a lot of this I believe will  
change for TM 2.0, when that comes out.

> Thanks again.
>
> Dan
>
> On 24-Oct-08, at 9:47 AM, Alex Ross wrote:
>
>> On Oct 24, 2008, at 3:32 AM, Dan Lussier wrote:
>>
>>> I'm new to using both latex and TextMate and am trying to modify the
>>> environmental variables that the pdftex engine sees when it is
>>> typesetting my document.
>>>
>>> So far I have tried modifying my ~/.profile and /etc/profile to
>>> include modified $TEXINPUT, $BSTINPUT environmental variables  
>>> without
>>> any luck.
>>
>> I think it's TEXINPUTS, not TEXINPUT.  The same for BIBINPUTS.
>>
>>> I have also tried adding these variables to the environmental
>>> variables area of the general TextMate Preferences but no luck there
>>> either.
>>
>> TextMate prefs are the correct place to add these.  TextMate commands
>> do not get the shell environment any longer.
>>
>> —Alex
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Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College