<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks for the advice. I ran kpsewhich pst3d-solides.tex in my terminal, and got no response.<div>However, since I knew that I had it in a pst3d-sldes folder inside my ~/Library/texmf folder, I moved that folder to trash. Then my picture ran the way it was supposed to (ie, the output looked like Herbert's). Running kpsewhich pst3d-solides.tex again in terminal, I still got no response (by which I mean it returned only a prompt). But when I ran kpsewhich pstricks.sty, it responded with a location.</div><div><br></div><div>As I said, I would like to clean up the structure of my various ancillary tex-related files in order to just use the TDS, but am afraid to do so on my own because I might eliminate something that I need but which is not included in the standard distribution (over time, I have put into my user texmf folder files called bibtex, curve, doc, prosper, pst-fun, and then tex, which contains inside folders called context, plain, and latex; the last contains my own macros (which I can recognize) as well as epigraph.sty, multienum.sty, paralist.sty, picins.sty, prosper.cls, and quotchap.sty. How can I tell which ones I can safely trust to the TDS and eliminate from my own folders? <br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Sep 19, 2010, at 12:32, Michael Sharpe wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>On Sep 19, 2010, at 9:18 AM, Zbigniew Nitecki wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">OK, I ran the TeX Live Utility, but (1) my pst3d-solides.tex file in the user Library->texmf->tex->latex->pst-solides3d folder remains with date August 2009, and (2) I continue to get the error message noted in the email attached below the one I am replying to.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I suspect that the problem is that over time, I have accumulated "special" packages which I have put into my texmf folder, and which (I suspect) the tex compiler looks at before searching the updated tree. I think that the only stuff in there which is not standard is my own private macros inside a latex subfolder. Is there a way to clear out the duplicate copies of things like pstricks packages leaving only those installed by MacTex 2010? Or do I need to do it folder by folder? <br></blockquote><br>The TeX Live Utility only updates /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist, AKA TEXMFDIST. It does not touch your items in your TEXMFHOME folder, ~/Library/texmf, or in TEXMFLOCAL. Any file in one of the latter two trees takes precedence over those in TEXMFDIST. In a Terminal window, run<br><br>kpsewhich pst3d-solides.tex<br><br>to find which version is seen by TeX, and delete it if it is not in TEXMFDIST.<br><br>Michael<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>PSTricks mailing list<br><a href="mailto:PSTricks@tug.org">PSTricks@tug.org</a><br>http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pstricks<br>archive: http://www.tug.org/pipermail/pstricks/<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>