<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Many thanks for your efforts with all of this.    I have found that</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">including a sub-directory tex within ~/texmf seems to work.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">  ~/texmf/tex/xyz   allows   \input xyz  within a TeX file to function</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">as one would like. </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>