so as it turns out, the path was set but I has to shut down computer and 
restart. kinda surprised to have that happen on a UNIX based system but, 
there ya go.

it all works splendidly now.



On Thursday, September 7, 2017 at 9:38:12 PM UTC-4, John Purnell wrote:
>
> If you installed MacTeX or BasicTex then your PATH would have been 
> appended to by a file TeX, which contains the path to the current TeX 
> binaries of /Library/TeX/texbin, in the directory /etc/paths.d. If that 
> file doesn’t exist, then you will either need to create it with those 
> contents or add the path /Library/TeX/texbin to PATH by other means.
>
> On 2017-09-08, at 11:27 +1200, Michael Prenez-Isbell michael...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org 
> <javascript:> wrote:
>
>
>
> pandoc can't find pdflatex now.
>
> it's here on my system:
>
>  /Library/TeX/Root/bin/x86_64-darwin/pdflatex
>
>
>
> if someone has a fix for this, that would be great.
>
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