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szhorvat / MaTeX

LaTeX labels in Mathematica
http://szhorvat.net/mathematica/MaTeX
MIT License
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Check whether the pdflatex exists. #1

Closed sungmin817 closed 9 years ago

sungmin817 commented 9 years ago

I tested your package today and found it was very helpful. After configuration, however, I had to spend some time since I could not get correct results. It turned out that I only configured the directories where the pdflatex lives but did not specify pdflatex (i.e., /some/other/directory/ not /some/other/directory/pdflatex). However, it did not warn me but yielded errors few lines after when it tried to run ghostscript(that is why I initially doubted that my ghostscript configuration was wrong). It would be nice if you add some codes that check whether pdflatex is correctly configured. IMO, DirectoryQ[ path]` is sufficient for this check.

By the way, thank you for your nice package. I really like it.

szhorvat commented 9 years ago

Thanks for point this out. I included a quick check to make sure the path points to a file (not a directory).

This part os the package needs to be reworked eventually, it is true that it only does a few rudimentary checks.