{"id":543,"date":"2014-03-06T15:21:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T20:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasoncantarella.com\/wordpress\/?p=543"},"modified":"2014-06-04T14:15:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T18:15:17","slug":"anki-2-022latexmavericks-problems-and-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasoncantarella.com\/wordpress\/anki-2-022latexmavericks-problems-and-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Anki 2.022\/Latex\/Mavericks Problems and Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the last few days, I’ve been working through an unexpected problem with lovely, dependable Anki<\/a>, which is a flashcard program that I use to memorize everything from my students’ names (it’s genius for this) to tricky integral and derivative formulas.<\/p>\n

It turns out that all previous versions of Anki (so far as I can tell) worked with whatever TeX distribution you install on your Mac, as long as<\/p>\n

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  1. You had dvipng.<\/li>\n
  2. latex and dvipng were on your default path.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This is\u00a0not<\/em> true with Anki 2.022 (presumably it will continue to fail for higher versions of Anki), which won’t find latex at all unless you’ve installed MacTeX (which installs in \/usr\/texbin) or BasicTeX (which I guess installs either in the same place, or someplace else that Anki can find it).<\/p>\n

    If, like me, you have a TeXLive distribution, you’re in trouble until you discover the “Edit_LaTeX_and_dvipng_calls” add-on for Anki (tip of the hat to one Soren Bjornstad for this one– you, sir, have saved my bacon royally with this one). The trick is to open the add-on, which gives you a piece of Python code containing the line<\/p>\n

    newLatex = [“latex”, “-interaction=nonstopmode”]<\/p>\n

    which you need to edit to\u00a0insert the complete path to latex, as in<\/strong><\/p>\n

    newLatex = [“\/usr\/local\/texlive\/2013\/bin\/x86_64-darwin\/latex”, “-interaction=nonstopmode”]<\/p>\n

    If you don’t know the path, you can get it by opening terminal and typing “which latex”. This should show you the entire path on your machine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    Repeat the process with the line<\/p>\n

    newDviPng = [“dvipng”, “-D”, “200”, “-T”, “tight”]<\/p>\n

    which, again, needs\u00a0the entire path to dvipng<\/strong>, as in<\/p>\n

    newDviPng = [“\/usr\/local\/texlive\/2013\/bin\/x86_64-darwin\/dvipng”, “-D”, “200”, “-T”, “tight”]<\/p>\n

    As before, you can get the path (if you don’t know it) by typing “which dvipng” in terminal.<\/p>\n

    It’s likely that if you have TeXShop (or TeXWorks) or something similar, then you have either TeTeX or TeXLive as the underlying TeX distribution, and you’ll have to do this. Or, I guess, install MacTeX on top of your existing distribution.<\/p>\n

    Happy memorizing! And many thanks to Damien Elmes of Anki, who helped me work through all this.
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