[racket] Scribble to latex

From: Mark Millikan (markmillikan at gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jun 12 12:36:04 EDT 2012

Did you try my first workaround suggestion? It lets you keep PATH
modifications  to typical *nix ones: such as install scripts expect/suggest
easing maintenance, ymmv.

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hashcollision.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Viera Proulx <vkp at 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
>
>
> Ah, but this looks like a Mac OS X system.  The environment that
> Racket (and other Mac OS X graphical programs) uses to run executables
> does not use the same variables as those provided by a "login" shell
> like your Terminal.  That means that even if your Terminal has an
> appropriate PATH, it's not guaranteed that the graphical programs use
> an environment with the right environmental variables.
>
> Environmental variables on Mac OS X is funky.  You may need to modify
> your $HOME/.MacOSX/environment.plist.  See:
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/135688/setting-environment-variables-in-os-x
>
> Good luck!
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