"michaels-MacBook-Pro-Early-2015:texbin michaelisbell$ ./pdflatex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (TeX Live 2017) (preloaded format=pdflatex) restricted \write18 enabled. ** Please type the name of your input file. ** Please type the name of your input file. ** Please type the name of your input file. ** " ah ha, verified texbin on my system, and that pdflatex executes, we're halfway there. this makes it pretty certain it's a PATH problem. On Friday, September 8, 2017 at 1:45:03 PM UTC-4, Michael Prenez-Isbell wrote: > > thanks, John, i'll try this out. > > 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...-Re5JQEeQqe8@public.gmane.orgm >> 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. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "pandoc-discuss" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to pandoc-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org >> To post to this group, send email to pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/c7776fed-d510-4aac-8214-c2a58cc922b5%40googlegroups.com >> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To post to this group, send email to pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/fa0c6e3d-66d6-42d3-a0bc-1c24ce208d23%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.