9.10 with TeX Live 2009 and TeXmaker 1.9.2

Christian Pleul chrisptex at googlemail.com
Fri Jan 8 13:51:23 UTC 2010


Am 08.01.2010 um 11:00 schrieb Christoph Bier:

> Christian Pleul schrieb am 08.01.2010 07:42:
> 
>> Am 07.01.2010 um 23:34 schrieb Christoph Bier:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> As you said,
>> 
>> which pdflatex
>> 
>> points to the right directory, but unfortunately, Texmaker now
>> responds
>> 
>> Error : could not start the command
>> 
>> when trying to start PDFLaTeX with default notation as
>> 
>> pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex
>> 
>> If I point Texmaker to
>> 
>> "/usr/local/texlive/2009/bin/i386-linux/pdflatex"
>> 
>> it works just fine.
>> 
>> I also did a logout/login, as well as an uninstall/reinstall of
>> Texmaker (also of the .deb file from the website of Texmaker) no
>> success...
> 
> I guess it's an TeXmaker issue. You should consult a corresponding
> mailing list.
> 
> FYI: If you intent to use LaTeX for your every day work have a look
> at Emacs (emacs-snapshot-common → with antialiased fonts) and AUCTeX
> (Ubuntu's version is still outdated, download from [1]). It's not
> that eye candy but much more powerful than TeXmaker. In the last
> twelve years I tested many LaTeX editors and always ended up with
> Emacs and AUCTeX.
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> Me, too. Though the output of pdflatex you sent in your first 
>>> posting wasn't as expected I'd like to see what
>>> 
>>> latex -v
>>> 
>>> prints.
>> 
>> That gives the (I think) correct output, with
>> 
>> chrisp at chrisp-desktop:~$ latex -v pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.10-2.2
>> (TeX Live 2009) kpathsea version 5.0.0 […]
> 
> Yes, that's the expected output.

Thanks Christoph for your patient support. I contact the developer of Texmaker and will see what he/she is going to say.

Thanks as well for your further suggestions.


Best,
--
	Christian


-Because I'm the CEO, and I think it can be done.-

Steve Jobs, 2005





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