[TxMt] Re: Suddenly xelatex is not found anymore

Niels Kobschaetzki n.kobschaetzki at googlemail.com
Tue Oct 7 19:39:31 UTC 2008


On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Alex Ross <tm-alex at rosiba.com> wrote:
> On Oct 5, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I've installed MacTex 2008 some days ago and switched finally from
>> pdftex to xelatex. On friday I still compiled files successfully,
>> today I get only a
>>
>> Error: xelatex is not found, you need to install LaTeX or be sure that
>> your PATH is setup properly.
>>
>> sh: line 0: type: xelatex: not found
>>
>> When I run from TextMate "which xelatex" it gives me: /usr/texbin/
>> xelatex
>> In Terminal the same, command completion in Terminal works fine as
>> well. Compiling the file in Terminal works as well.
>>
>> I'm working with TM 1.5.7 (1464) and a recent SVN-checkout.
>>
>> Does anyone have an idea what the problem could be and how to fix it?
>
> TextMate commands are moving away from sourcing the file
> "bash_init.sh" which also sources .profile, thus your path variable
> is not initialized in the same way the shell.  From terminal you can
> `echo $PATH` and copy the result to the environment variables section
> of TextMate's preferences.

Where is this mentioned preference in the preferences?
I can only find the "Shell Variables" -- if this is what you mean,
what variable is it?
TM_BASH_something? And the value is the path? Or is it somewhere else?

Niels



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