<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">I should have mentioned that I do successfully set my PATH variable with .bash_profile.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Walt</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Walt Burkhard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:burkhard@cs.ucsd.edu" target="_blank">burkhard@cs.ucsd.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Hello</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Many thanks for all your efforts with this. I am still without a real solution. I have temporarily moved files to the folder</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">containing my tex file and have it all running as needed in this one instance. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">I am working within a bash window. And I have placed the line "set TEXMFHOME=/Users/walt/texmf" followed </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">by "export TEXMFHOME" both within .bash_profile in my home directory. Then the command printenv does not show the</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">value for TEXMFHOME when issuing printenv or printenv TEXMFHOME This shouldn't be the way printenv works</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">according to its man page. The sme is true if I set TEXMFHOME to /Users/walt/Library/texmf. My texmf of course contains</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">the files I must gather via "\input" In the current state, \input xyz gathers the contents of xyz from the copy within the tex file folder.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Many thanks again for your assistance.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Walt </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Reinhard Kotucha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:reinhard.kotucha@web.de" target="_blank">reinhard.kotucha@web.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On 2014-10-27 at 14:38:58 -0500, Dan Luecking wrote:<br>
<br>
> On Oct 26 at 00:04:19 CEST, Walt Burkhard wrote:<br>
><br>
> >Of course, I could change each "\input" line to contain the<br>
> >complete file name such as /Users/walt/texmf/xyz but I would<br>
> >to just say \input xyz<br>
><br>
> TeX (as well as {pdf,xe,lua}[La]TeX, etc,) do not normally<br>
> look directly in texmf directories, but rather in the<br>
> directory texmf/tex/ and all subdirctories below that. So move<br>
> your input file xyz to<br>
> /Users/walt/texmf/tex/xyz<br>
><br>
> Alternatively, you can (re)set all TEXINPUTS.* to include the base<br>
</span> > directory. [...]<br>
<br>
Not a good idea. Use things as they are documented. TeX Live is a<br>
complex system. It's too easy to shoot into your own leg. Whenever<br>
you change a TEXINPUTS.* variable I can guarantee you that the<br>
confusion outweighs the benefit.<br>
<br>
The definite guide is<br>
<br>
<a href="http://tug.org/tds" target="_blank">http://tug.org/tds</a><br>
<span><br>
Regards,<br>
Reinhard<br>
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