Latex does not come pre-installed on your mac. If it cannot find pdflatex that means that you either haven't installed it, or you have installed it but haven't updated your PATH environment variable to point to the directory containing all the latex commands. Brad <div>On 8/2/07, Tony Crockford <<a href="mailto:tonyc@boldfish.co.uk">tonyc@boldfish.co.uk</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 2 Aug 2007, at 16:31, Brad Miller wrote: > > Using TM one easy way to go is to create a document using one of > the latex > templates. Try the article template. Save it and press cmd-R I get a cannot find pdflatex error. what should I have done first? ;) ______________________________________________________________________ For new threads USE THIS: <a href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com"> textmate@lists.macromates.com</a> (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't) <a href="http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate">http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate </a> </blockquote></div> -- Brad Miller Assistant Professor, Computer Science Luther College