Hello Ted, thanks for your quick and very helpful answer.
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:59:29AM -0400, Ted Pavlic wrote: > > I trying to use latex on Mac OS X with MacVim. I have more than one > > LaTeX distribution installed (comming from macports, fink and the one > > comming with TexShop). How can I tell vim-latex-suite which one to use? > > I guess it must be possible to provide somewhere the path where > > binaries, classes etc. reside. > > See > > :help latex-suite > > and search for CompileRule. In particular, the section on > > Tex_CompileRule_format This is what I was looking for. > provides information on how to specify which command to use to build > your document. You can specify your format directly, and you can > probably create a map to easily switch settings as needed. > > I'm a little skeptical about whether you have a good reason to have > three different distributions. I'm also surprised that TeXShop is > bundled with its own distribution. > > Ideally, you should just be using MacTeX (which is just TeXLive for Mac): Actually I mostly only use MacTeX. I think the ones from ports and fink got installed since other applications from fink / ports depend on then. Maybe I could have avoided this making them use MacTeX, but I was too lazy for this. Letting Tex_CompileRule_pdf point to /usr/texbin/pdflatex is fine for me for the moment. Thanks, Udo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ Vim-latex-devel mailing list Vim-latex-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vim-latex-devel
