[OS X TeX] Re: Path to TeX macro files

[Maarten Sneep]

On 25-nov-2006, at 13:49, David Goldschmidt wrote:

> I'm running a standard install of TeX (on Tiger) which I got from
> CTAN, following
> instructions given with TeXShop.  I believe the package is called
> MacTeX.   The good news is that the install worked completely
> automatically and TeX is running perfectly.  The bad news is that I  
> don't
> know where anything is or how the installation actually works.  My
> problem is that I'm trying to install a version of the CWEB literate
> programming

cweave and ctangle are part of mactex, I think.

> system.  The makefile requires a path to TEXINPUTS, which is  
> described as
> "the directory for TeX macro files".  The default given is
> TEXINPUTS=/usr/local/tex/inputs

Not setting it at all is the correct method I believe, but what you  
are trying to install is probably already there.

Maarten


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