13 Dec
2007
13 Dec
'07
9:30 a.m.
On 13 Dec 2007, at 09:30, Ben Wooliscroft wrote:
[...] When I type "which pdflatex" into terminal it also returns nothing, but I can go to /usr/texbin and see pdflatex.
So you want to add ‘/usr/texbin’ to the PATH variable.
[...] It appears that the files are there [...] but somehow hidden from the system, but not from TexShop?
Programs (shell commands) are found by looking in the folders specified as a :-separated list in the PATH environment variable.
TexShop likely has /usr/texbin (and probably a few other locations) as a hardcoded place to look for pdflatex, so that it works even w/o users setting up their PATH.