Just a quick update. Weirdly, pandoc works fine when I call it from Sublime 
Text (using the pandown plugin), I just can't call it from the Terminal. 

On Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at 1:42:01 PM UTC+1, Oliver wrote:
>
> 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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