yes, I agree this should be updated, according to https://www.tug.org/mactex/sierra.html I cc to the primary developer of sage.app.
On Friday, January 20, 2017 at 4:12:22 AM UTC, Michael Frey wrote: > > I found that when trying to access LATeX (MacTeX) calls in a Sage notebook > via MatPlotLib or directly Sage would report that it could not find some > TeX function. It appears that the PATH variable being used by the Sage app > is pointing to /usr/texbin, not /Library/TeX/texbin. As a workaround I > modified src/mac-app/start-sage.sh and added: > > if test -d /Library/TeX/texbin > > then > > export PATH=$PATH:/Library/TeX/texbin > > fi > > > After rebuilding the Sage app dmg, Sage works as expected when accessing > TeX calls. > strange that you needed to rebuild - are you saying that sage.app does hardcore path, rather than getting it from the environment? > > There may be a better way, but I could not find one searching through the > Sage source. > > > I am not sure how proceed with getting this corrected so users do not have > the manually edit the start-sage.sh file. > > > Regards, > > > Mike > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
