On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Lucy Buykx lucy@buykx.com wrote:
On 23 Mar 2010, at 17:10, Yan Zhou wrote:
I suggest you should consult the TUG (Tex User Group) mail list. This is really not a TextMate thing nor a LaTeX bundle thing. Installing and using package has nothing to do with TextMate or LaTeX bundle. They merely provide a excellent way for editing latex source file.
Can you confirm that the LaTeX bundle in TextMate provides support for writing source code, compiling and producing PDF output, but provides ZERO support for adding new packages?
Well, actually it just automates that for you. It uses stuff that is installed with a TeX-distribution. AFAIK it doesn't install packages and I do not know any other editor w/ TeX-syntax highlighting it does. I have TeX Live installed and I use usually "TeX Live Utility.app" for that. Before that it was downloading and installing packages by hand.
There are dozens of ways to check which tex you are using.
In terminal, try
tex -version
or
latex -version
Have found that I do have a folder called /usr/local/texlive - MacOS Finder helpfully hides this so I was unable to see it before. However neither "tex" or "latex" are recognised as commands.
Then your path-variables are probably not set. How did you install TeX in the first place? I suggest you download MacTeX and install that. http://www.tug.org/mactex/downloading.html
That installs TeX Live and installs some graphical utilities (like the above mentioned "TeX Live Utility" as well).
Most mac users nowadays use MacTeX, aka, TeXLive. If you find "TeX Distribution" in the System preference panel, then you are using it and you can check which distribution is in use.
Here's a screen shot of my system preferences - where would I go look for Tex Distribution?
It's a pref by itself - pretty obvious in the third party-line of system preferences.
But I suggest you subscribe to "OS X TeX": http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/wiki/index.php?title=TeX_on_Mac_OS_X_mailing_list because it's getting more and more offtopic by the minute for this list.
Niels