Mark and David
Thanks, I got it working
-- Viera
On Jun 8, 2012, at 4:30 PM, Mark Millikan wrote:
> Two work arounds:
>
> 1. Launch DrRacket from a terminal with <open /path/to/DrRacket.app>
>
> 2. Run <raco scribble --pdf /path/to/your-scribble-source.scrbl>
>
> ======================
>
> This fragment from racket/collects/redex/private/dot.rkt succinctly describes
> the problem and a hard-coded
> solution to the root problem:
>
> ;; these paths are explicitly checked (when find-executable-path
> ;; fails) because starting drracket from the finder (or the dock)
> ;; under mac os x generally does not get the path right.
> (define dot-paths
> '("/usr/bin"
> "/bin"
> "/usr/local/bin"
> "/opt/local/bin/"))
>
> (define dot.exe (if (eq? (system-type) 'windows) "dot.exe" "dot"))
> (define neato.exe (if (eq? (system-type) 'windows) "neato.exe" "neato"))
>
> (define (find-dot [neato? #f])
> (cond
> [(and (find-executable-path dot.exe)
> (find-executable-path neato.exe))
> (if neato?
> (find-executable-path neato.exe)
> (find-executable-path dot.exe))]
> [else
> (ormap (λ (x) (and (file-exists? (build-path x dot.exe))
> (file-exists? (build-path x neato.exe))
> (build-path x (if neato? neato.exe dot.exe))))
> dot-paths)]))
>
> ==========================
>
> To see the problem download:
>
> http://hayne.net/MacDev/AppleScript/showEnvVars.applescript
>
> Using the applescript editor
>
> 1. save it as a gui app
>
> 2. open it from the finder or dock
> and open it in a terminal shell using the open command
>
> 3, compare the PATH envvar in the two cases
>
> ==========================================
>
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:40 PM, David Janke <da...@thejamesriver.com> wrote:
> You can always try including the relative path. Something like:
> (find-executable-path "pdflatex" "../../../sw/bin")
>
> Doesn't OS X have a .profile? Maybe try defining the path there instead of in
> .bashrc?
>
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Viera Proulx <v...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> I am starting to play with scribble and have tried to generate a pdf document
> from the scribble source. The conversion to html worked fine.
>
> When I hit the Scribble to PDF button I got:
>
> Welcome to DrRacket, version 5.2.1 [3m].
> Language: scribble/manual; memory limit: 128 MB.
> scribble: loading xref
> scribble: rendering
> . .
> ../../../../../../../Applications/Racket/collects/scribble/private/run-pdflatex.rkt:7:0:
> run-pdflatex: could not find a `pdflatex' executable
> >
>
> So I looked for run-pdflatex.rkt and opened that and ran it - successfully. I
> am working on a Mac OS 1.6.8 - so I wondered whether pdflatex exists on it.
> Running in the Terminal, I tried:
>
> vkp$ which pdflatex
> /sw/bin/pdflatex
> vkp$ which man
> /usr/bin/man
>
> so, the command is there. I checked my .bashrc and /sw/bin is in the PATH:
>
> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/vkp/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sw/bin:/Applications/Racket/bin:/usr/bin/ant/bin:/Applications/android-sdk-mac_86/tools:$PATH
>
>
> Then I tried in the Interactions for the run-pdflatex.rkt
>
> Welcome to DrRacket, version 5.2.1 [3m].
> Language: scheme/base; memory limit: 128 MB.
> > (find-executable-path "pdflatex")
> #f
> > (find-executable-path "man")
> #<path:/usr/bin/man>
> >
>
> So - I have no idea why the path to pdflatex is not found. Any help is
> appreciated.
>
> -- Viera
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