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Re: Invoking pdflatex from a notebook

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• Subject: [mg121282] Re: Invoking pdflatex from a notebook
• From: JUN <noeckel at gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 05:40:25 -0400 (EDT)
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On Sep 6, 1:08 am, Themis Matsoukas <tmatsou... at me.com> wrote:
> I am trying to invoke pdflatex from inside a Mathematica notebook but I can't get it to work. Standard shell commands work fine. For example the following gives me a listing of the current directory:
>
> SetDirectory@NotebookDirectory[];
> Import["!ls -a", "Text"]
>
> ".
> .
> DS_Store
> debug.nb
> test copy.tex
> test.tex
> unix shell.nb"
>
> But when I evaluate
>
> Import["!pdflatex test.tex", "Text"]
>
> nothing happens.  I am running 8.0.1 on a Mac (Lion) and my latex installation is Texlive-2011.
>
> Themis

Themis,
unless Lion works completely differently from Snow Leopard, I bet that
the path to your TeX installation isn't contained in the $PATH
environment variable that Mathematica sees. Look for that directory in the
output of this Mathematica command:
Environment["PATH"]

If you can't find the TeX direcotry, you have to add it.
A simple way to do this is to type the following in the Terminal:
defaults write ~/.MacOSX/environment PATH $PATH

(of course this assumes pdflatex worked for you in Terminal, meaning
that $PATH contains the correct info when an interactive shell has
been initialized).

Jens