<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Philip,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Did you install using MacTeX-2017?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If so, ~/texmf will not work, but /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local and ~/Library/texmf will work. These locations must have the same directory structure as TeX Live. So tex can find files in (or files in folders in)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>~/Library/texmf/tex</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and pdflatex can find files in (or files in folders in)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>~/Library/texmf/tex/latex</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bibtex files are a special case; see the Q & A link on <a href="http://tug.org/mactex" class="">http://tug.org/mactex</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Note that files in ~/Library/texmf will be immediately visible, but /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local requires running texhash afterward.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dick Koch</div></body></html>