Problems with SageTex on MacOS

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Typesetting with LaTeX and SageTeX

Given a document something.tex using SageTeX, the steps for typesetting are:

• one round of typesetting with latex

  for instance with this terminal command:

  $ pdflatex something.tex
  

  This produces a file something.sagetex.sage.

• one round of running Sage on that file

  for instance with this terminal command:

  $ sage something.sagetex.sage
  

  This requires sage to be somewhere in your PATH.

  This prepares all the Sage output for the next round of typesetting.

• two rounds of typesetting with latex

  for instance with this terminal command:

  $ pdflatex something.tex
  $ pdflatex something.tex
  

  This produces the desired file something.pdf.

What if sage is not in my PATH?

Here is one way to get it there.

• start Sage

• in Sage, run this command:

  sage: !sudo ln -sf $SAGE_ROOT/sage /usr/local/bin
  

• type in the password for your user account on your mac

• quit Sage