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N.B. ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist is obsolete
From Mountain Lion on, the ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist method has been replaced by ""launchctl" commands.
See http://codepulsive.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/setting-environment-variables-in-os-x.html for a discussion of the new launchctl method for setting environment variables. The basic mechanism is at the beginning of that post.
About ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist is a file that sets default variables for every application. A sample ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist file can be found here; you may have to <ctrl>-click the link to save this file to your computer. More details on ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist files can be found here.
Note: Any changes to ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist require that you logout and login again for the change to take effect.
Warning! This sample .plist file will affect your bibtex compilation: you'll need to put all .bst and .bib files in the folders specified inside the .plist file. If you don't want this, remove the first two keys in the file.
- GUI Language
- To change the GUI language, insert the lines
<key>LANG</key>
<string>fr</string>
<key>OUTPUT_CHARSET</key>
<string>iso8859-1</string>
between the <dict> and </dict> of ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist. Substitute the two-character abbreviation of the language you want for "fr" and the appropriate coded character set for "iso8859-1". (You can find the available languages and codesets by entering locale -a in Terminal.app.)
- X-windows
- To use Xfig or X-windows previewers like xdvi or gv with LyX/Mac, add
<key>DISPLAY</key>
<string>:0.0</string>
between the <dict> and </dict> of ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist.
- BibTeX
- To enable LyX to find
.bib and .bst files automatically, add
<key>BIBINPUTS</key>
<string>~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib::</string>
<key>BSTINPUTS</key>
<string>~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bst::</string>
between the <dict> and </dict> of ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist.
Caution: In my case this caused Bibtex to stop working when called by Lyx. It also killed preview generation in BibDesk. It might work if you use .:~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib::, anything which makes Bibtex search in the working directory also. However, I haven't tested this, I just got rid of these entries in the environment.plist, logged out and back in and everything worked perfectly again.
- Texinputs
- To enable LyX to find other class and style files automatically, add
<key>TEXINPUTS</key>
<string>.:/sw/share/texmf-dist/tex//:yourpath_here//</string>
between the <dict> and </dict> of ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist.
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