Problems with Sagetex under Texshop

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Open this folder ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/Inactive/Sage/ and follow the instructions in About Sage.pdf and all should work fine. Make sure you have the Sage.app version installed.

For $TeX$Shop users needing more assistance, I have written a ~50 page guide that should help.

First, the instructions seem to indicate that if you copy the file sagetex.sty into a directory with your latex file, then the system will be able to find it. Can you first verify that this is the case?

After that, can you try putting sagetex.sty in the default search location? On the mac, that's ~/Library/texmf, so I guess you should put sagetex.sty in ~/Library/texmf/tex/generic/sagetex/. Note that a new "feature" in Mac 10.6 makes the Library directory hidden. You can navigate to in with the Terminal, or select it from the Go menu (you have to hold down the Option key to see it).

Edit by kcrisman: with the upgrade to SageTeX 3.0, the default location in Sage will in fact be $SAGE_ROOT/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/sagetex/ which should be placed in ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/sagetex/, I believe.

Found that sage.engine was looking for the "app" version of Sage. Changed the path from "/Applications/SageMath-7.6.app/Contents/Resources/sage/sage" to match the actual location of Sage. Now TexShop works with SageMath.

The instructions are written with Linux in mind, which would normally run a de facto standard TeX implementation called TeXLive (or an older one, albeit quite similar, called teTeX). I didn't use TeXshop (which is IDE to run LaTeX) for many years; google tells me that actually it uses TeXLive, so you are all set in this sense.

Sagetex is meant to be run at the shell prompt. If you do it at the shell prompt, then put sagetex.sty in your working directory (there are better ways, but this one should typically work, too), open the Terminal, and run latex yourfile. Then run Sage, as described here.

(needless to say, sagetex.sty is pretty much useless without Sage installed).