Howdy, Who knows where you tried to install XeTeX.
What does echo $PATH return? Did you actually try running the commands supplied by Dick Koch. Good Luck, Herb Schulz > On Nov 13, 2016, at 7:16 PM, Christian Boitet <christian.boi...@imag.fr> > wrote: > > Good night, 13/11/16 > >>> Le 14 nov. 2016 à 00:46, Richard Koch <k...@uoregon.edu> a écrit : >>> >>> >>> On Nov 13, 2016, at 3:35 PM, Christian Boitet <christian.boi...@imag.fr> >>> wrote: >>> >>> G'day, 13/11/16 >>> >>> Vielen Dank Herb für die schnelle Antwort. >>> >>> Ja zur Frage. >>> >>> (Ich schrieb "I reinstalled MacLive, and then MacTeX-2016, which are >>> supposed to come with XeTeX. No way. >>> The message is always the same...") >>> >>> Maybe I should try to uninstall all TeX-related files and reinstall, but it >>> is too complex to do it by hand. The installers are supposed to replace >>> what should be replaced, but obviously don't erase all what should be >>> erased. >> >> >> Nonsense. MacTeX installs TeX Live in /usr/local/texlive/2016, which is >> incidentally the default location suggested by TeXLive. It would be stupid >> for it to erase /opt/local/bin, since it is not going to use that >> location, and since the user might want to keep their old TeX around. >> >> The MacTeX install does exactly the correct thing. It puts all of TeX Live >> in this one location >> >> /usr/local/texlive/2016 >> >> Dick Koch >> k...@uoregon.edu > > True enough: > > ============================================================ > sudo find / -name 'texmf.cnf' > ==> > /Installeurs/XeTeX/xetex-0.9999.3/source/texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf > /Installeurs/XeTeX/xetex-0.9999.3/source/texk/web2c/etexdir/etrip/texmf.cnf > /Users/boitet/Library/texmf/tex/latex/pgf_2.10.tds/doc/generic/pgf/text-en/texmf.cnf > /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf > /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pgf/text-en/texmf.cnf > /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/doc/latex/pgfplots/texmf.cnf > /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf.cnf > /usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf > /usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf.cnf > /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf > /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf.cnf > /usr/local/texlive/2016basic/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf > /usr/local/texlive/2016basic/texmf.cnf > ============================================================ > But, then, how comes this file (texmf.cnf) is not found when I run TeXShop in > mode XeTeX or XeLaTeX? > > The other question is why I seem not to be able to install the latest version > of XeTeX "on top" of what exists. > Perhaps it is, actually, but why does it report looking for files in > /opt/local when they have been installed in /usr/local ? > > ==> Il will try to solve this simply, hoping the latest version of xetex is > contained in the latest version of MacTeX, which seems natural. > > > I just added to my profile: > setenv PATH "$PATH":"/usr/local/texlive/2016" > > If I understand well, it should solve the problem... but it does not at the > moment. > > I'll update my system and restart tomorrow, perhaps that will help. > > Question: is there is somewhere a PATH variable specific to TeX (some > PATH_TEX or TEX_PATH)? > > I did not find a place in TeXShop where I could specify which instance of > TeXlive it should use. > Perhaps it is still using texlive/2011 or texlive/2015? > Tomorrow (too late now), I'll remove the older versions of TeXlive and the > separate folder used to try to install semtex 0.99993 separately. > > > Best, > Xan (@imag.fr) > > >> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: >> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
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