I recently installed LaTeX for Mac OS and ran into some hiccups. So as a reminder to myself and perhaps help for everyone else, I thought I would quickly detail what I did and how to make sure it was all working properly. Sources: At the time of this writing TexStudio is version 2.10.4 and MacTex is version 20150613. Go ahead and install both in either order. I installed TexStudio first and then MacTex and ran into some issues, but I believe that they persist even if you install MacTex first. Once installed, in TexStudio, go to preferences and commands. You will probably see many things referencing /dev/null. If that is the case, you'll need to update the following lines as shown in the image below. This came from another website, so a big thanks to them for helping everyone out in getting this installed. Latex "/Library/TeX/texbin/latex" -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex PdfLaTeX "/Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex" -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex DviPs "/Library/TeX/texbin/dvips" -o %.ps %.dvi DviPng "/Library/TeX/texbin/dvipng" -T tight -D 120 %.dvi DviPdf "/Library/TeX/texbin/dvipdfm" %.dvi BibTeX "/Library/TeX/texbin/bibtex" %.aux Makeindex "/Library/TeX/texbin/makeindex" %.idx Metapost "/Library/TeX/texbin/mpost" --interaction nonstopmode Asymptote "/Library/TeX/texbin/asy" %.asy Likewise, if you are interested in getting SVN to work and have git on your computer, you can execute the following command (This came from the same source as above, or directly): git config --global alias.ci "commit" Then just change SVN and SVNadmin to both: git Also, if you need to create some great graphics, flowcharts, or anything else like that, I would highly recommend checking out draw.io. It's a great free website that allows you to draw great flowcharts, electronic circuitry, mockups, networking, Venn diagrams, anything. It's really excellent and I'm using them for some of the papers I'm doing in LaTeX. Here are some tutorial video's from them incase you are curious. |
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