Oh no, I'm getting this error now. I get it for both pdflatex and xelatex 
engines:

pandoc: xelatex: createProcess: runInteractiveProcess: exec: inappropriate 
> type (Not a directory)
>
> pandoc: pdflatex: createProcess: runInteractiveProcess: exec: 
> inappropriate type (Not a directory)


I was running Pandoc with absolutely no problems on OS X Yosemite. What 
started producing this error is that I was trying to add a path to the 
$PATH variable by editing .bash_profile to this:

export 
> PATH="/bin/bash:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:$PATH"
>
>
>
 This was a bad idea, as it ended up removing lots of additions from $PATH 
which I had to put back in again by hand (eg the Python3.4 path had to be 
re-added). So, this is $PATH after my attempt to fix it:

/bin/bash:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/texbin
>
 
The texbin is in the path, so pdflatex and xelatex are both discoverable:

which xelatex
>
> /usr/texbin/xelatex
>

 But I've completely broken Pandoc. 

Presumably, there's something still missing from my $PATH variable, and if 
I could restore my $PATH to what it was previously, it would work again. 
Can anyone see anything obvious that's missing? Could someone running 
Pandoc on Yosemite type echo $PATH and let me know what they get?

thanks.



On Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 1:26:37 AM UTC, Ricardo Pietrobon wrote:
>
> everything was working perfectly unitl I installed yosemite (i know, I 
> know) and now when I try to convert from markdown to pdf i get the 
> following message:
>
> pandoc: pdflatex: createProcess: runInteractiveProcess: exec: 
> inappropriate type (Not a directory)
>
>
> here is what i tried and didn't work:
>
> 1. reinstalled pandoc, with the binary from the pandoc site as well as 
> through brew
> 2. reinstalled maktex, which includes using FixMacTeX2014.pkg
> 3. deleted the old /usr/bin/texbin and rebuilt the symbolic link
>
> any thoughts on what the problem might be?
>
> thanks
>

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