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<div>Thanks for your response.</div><div class="im">
<div><br><<c:/texmf-local/tex<br>It seems that TEXMFHOME does not exist on your computer>></div>
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</div><div>This directory is empty. Also I use latex. Do I need to create <span>TEXMFHOME</span> or can I just use c:/texmf-local/tex instead for my purpose? i.e., move all my frequently used input file in here to call from any working directory. </div>
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<div> </div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div>LaTeX will first look into texmf-local/tex/latex and its subdirectories, then to texmf-local/tex and its subdirectories. So it depends on a number of files. If you have just a few files, you can put all of them to texmf-local/tex. If you have a lot of file, this may be confusing to you. It may then be better to create some directory structure under texmf-local/tex/latex similarly as exists under texmf-dist/tex/latex. Do not forget to rebuild the file name database after you put the files to texmf-local.<br>
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</div><div class="im"><div>After a couple of days of struggling (with a lot of help from experts in this site), I was finally succeeded in downloading TexLive2008, but pdf file showed smaller size output. I used (still using Latex-->dvips-->pstopdf.</div>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br>Some paper sizes for dvips were renamed and the logic for finding the nearest similar paper size was changed. It was discussed in this list approximately a year ago. <br>
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<div>Again I asked many people from this site, but I don't even know whether the problem was solved or not. Since then, I decided to stick to TexLive2007 until I need more function.</div>
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<div><<..installation of scheme-full takes about 9 minutes ..>></div>
<div>That's amazing! I remember it took more than 6 hours last year! It's very tempting to try again, maybe.</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br>It depends on your network connection and reliability of the mirror. The mirror on the Czech Technical University is fast and reliable and my computer is sort of priviledged. <br>
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<div>Thanks again,</div>
<div>Steve<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 2/15/10, Zdenek Wagner <i><<a href="mailto:zdenek.wagner@gmail.com" target="_blank">zdenek.wagner@gmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br></div>
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<br>Subject: Re: [tex-live] personal input file<br>To: "Steve MC Han" <<a href="mailto:hmc0907@yahoo.com" target="_blank">hmc0907@yahoo.com</a>><br></div><div class="im">Cc: "Vladimir Lomov" <<a href="mailto:lomov.vl@gmail.com" target="_blank">lomov.vl@gmail.com</a>>, "Manuel P?gouri?-Gonnard" <<a href="mailto:mpg@elzevir.fr" target="_blank">mpg@elzevir.fr</a>>, "Markus Kohm" <<a href="mailto:markus.kohm@gmx.de" target="_blank">markus.kohm@gmx.de</a>>, <a href="mailto:tex-live@tug.org" target="_blank">tex-live@tug.org</a><br>
Date: Monday, February 15, 2010, 1:56 PM<br><br>
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<div>Thank you very much for your responses.</div>
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<div>I followed your instruction and it showed:</div>
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<div>c:/TexLive2007/../texmf-local</div>
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<div>But there's no texmf-local subdirectory under TexLive2007. Instead there's texmf-local directory right under c:/ along with TexLive2007. (c:/TexLive2007, c:/texmf-local,...)</div>
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<div>Under c:/texmf-local there are 4 subdirectories: doc, dvips, fonts and tex.</div>
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<div>Can you tell me which?</div>
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<div>c:/texmf-local/tex<br>It seems that TEXMFHOME does not exist on your computer<br> </div>
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<div>For upgrading: last year I tried to upgrade to TexLive2008, but I have had bad experiences, so I try not to anymore as long as TexLive2007 along with metapost 0.9 work. (Or until new TexLive could be downloaded with a couple of simple clicks)</div>
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<div>What kind of bad experiences?<br><br>If your network connection is good, you unpack install-tl.zip, run install-tl.bat, select what to install and wait. texmf-local intentionally is not below TeXLive2007, your personal file will be used by later TL versions as well, no need to reinstall.<br>
<br>My computer sits on a gigabit backbone, our local mirror is about 5 miles apart so installation of scheme-full takes about 9 minutes but normal users will probably have to wait longer.<br> </div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Steve</div>
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<div><br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 2/14/10, Vladimir <span>Lomov</span> <i><<a href="http://us.mc1107.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=lomov.vl@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lomov.vl@gmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br>
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Subject: Re: [tex-live] personal input file<br>To: "Steve MC Han" <<a href="http://us.mc1107.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=hmc0907@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hmc0907@yahoo.com</a>><br>Cc: <a href="http://us.mc1107.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=tex-live@tug.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tex-live@tug.org</a><br>
Date: Sunday, February 14, 2010, 8:16 PM<br><br>
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<div>** Steve MC Han [2010-02-14 19:26:29 -0800]:<br><br><br>> <br>> Hi,<br>> <br>> I was wondering where I could store personal input files so that I could call from any working directory instead of making the same input file for the current working directory each time.<br>
> <br>> I am using latex of TexLive2007 in my personal PC with WinEdt editor.<br>> <br>To be short: in TEXMFHOME<br><br></div>
<div>E.g.<br>%USERPROFILE%/texmf/tex/latex<br>for latex stuff or<br>%USERPROFILE%/texmf/tex/plain<br>for plain tex stuff.<br><br></div>
<div>For precise location of TEXMFHOME on Windows read TL 2007 documentation (search for TEXMFHOME).<br><br></div>
<div>More details and some explanation could be found here<br><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=what-TDS" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=what-TDS</a><br>
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<div>P.S. I advise you to upgrade your TeX system.<br><br></div>
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