[TxMt] Re: modifying environmental variables for latex

[Dan Lussier]

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.

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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