Thanks. That confirms my theory. I had changed the path in the default
config for a GitHub issue a while back but I think it makes sense to revert
that change so that it looks on the default PATH for latex. Then anyone
with a strange setup can just change it themselves. I'll do that so in the
next release the default will be just "latex" rather than
"/usr/local/bin/latex"

On Wed., Apr. 22, 2020, 9:08 p.m. Garrison Taylor, <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Devin,
>
> it looks like the problem was that I have latex and dvipng installed to a
> different local than Mnemosyne was expecting (/Library/TeX/texbin/ instead
> of /usr/local/bin/). I believe that I had configured this in the past, and
> then my config.py was reset when I updated Mnemosyne to 2.7.1 (I had some
> syncing issues that made me have to erase ~/Library/Mnemosyne/). I changed
> the config.py and it's working for me now.
>
> I installed LaTeX through the CTAN mirror of MacTex (
> http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/mac/mactex/MacTeX.pkg).
>
> Thanks,
> Taylor
>
> On Apr 19, 2020, at 17:19, Devin Howard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Taylor,
>
> Are you able to share a few details?
>
> 1. What are the contents of the file ~/Library/Mnemosyne/config.py?
> Specifically the last two lines relating to latex and dvipng
> 2. What is the location of your LaTeX installation? There are a few ways
> to install and I'm hoping to replicate the conditions under which you
> experience this issue
>
> For now, I'm trying with /usr/local/bin/latex as the path, which is the
> same as the default installer, and using "brew cask install basictex" from
> https://brew.sh
>
> On Sunday, March 29, 2020 at 2:50:26 PM UTC-7, Devin Howard wrote:
>>
>> Sorry for the late reply here. I didn't change anything related to LaTeX
>> recently. As far as I know, the latest change was to make the Mac code look
>> for LaTeX here:
>>
>> latex = "/usr/local/bin/latex -output-format=dvi -interaction=nonstopmode"
>> dvipng = "/usr/local/bin/dvipng -D 200 -T tight tmp.dvi"
>>
>> I've never actually set it up before myself, and as far as I understand,
>> any changes to the setup break different sets of users. So I'm not really
>> sure what to do.
>>
>> It looks like on https://mnemosyne-proj.org/help/adding-media.php we
>> suggest downloading MacTex. I'm going to try downloading that from
>> https://www.tug.org/mactex/mactex-download.htmland see if I can
>> reproduce/fix the issue.
>>
>> On Monday, March 23, 2020 at 12:26:44 AM UTC-7, Peter Bienstman
>> (UGent-imec) wrote:
>>>
>>> Putting Devin, our Mac developer, in CC.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
>>> On Behalf Of Garrison Taylor
>>> Sent: 23 March 2020 02:44
>>> To: mnemosyne-proj-users <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Latex problems in 2.7.1
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just updated my Mnemosyne to 2.7.1 on MacOS. Before, I had latex
>>> working just fine. After the update, it gives the "Problem with latex. Are
>>> latex and dvipng installed?" message. My path variable is still set
>>> properly, so that shouldn't be the problem. Any ideas on what the problem
>>> could be?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Taylor
>>>
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