[XeTeX] LaTeX Error: File polyglossia.sty not found
Fr. Michael Gilmary
FrMichaelGilmary at MaroniteMonks.org
Sat Jan 30 22:37:50 CET 2010
Manuel Souto Pico wrote:
> So, I understand the best thing to do is to update my MacTex installation.
>
Indeed.
> And after updating, it seems I won't need to find the polyglossia.sty file
> myself...
>
Correct.
> However, let me please ask this. What is the best way to update? I
> understand that the latest MacTex.mpkg.zip will allow me to install
> MacTex-2009 but that won't uninstall my current version. So it's like
> different programs, right?
I think MacTeX will install a separate branch on the tree, something like:
/usr/local/texlive/2009/ETC.ETC.
so it will find what it needs and (I think) ignore older installations
(maybe you have teTeX?). Then, it will probably be safe to dump all the
old stuff --- unless you have custom files in some texmf-local folders.
> There's no update command that I can just run, I
> guess.
>
Actually, TeXlive manager does just that ... but you have to update
first. And, if I'm not mistaken, OS 10.4 doesn't run the updates. You'll
need 10.5.
> By the way, what is Web2C?
>
From the Web2C doc (web2c.pdf), Karl Berry and Olaf Weber state:
> Web2c is the name of a TEX implementation, originally for Unix, but
> now also running
> under DOS, Amiga, and other operating systems. By TEX implementation,
> we mean all
> of the standard programs developed by the Stanford TEX pro ject
> directed by Donald E.
> Knuth: Metafont, DVItype, GFtoDVI, BibTEX, Tangle, etc., as well as
> TEX itself. Other
> programs are also included: DVIcopy, written by Peter Breitenlohner,
> MetaPost and its
> utilities (derived from Metafont), by John Hobby, etc.
> General strategy: Web2c works, as its name implies, by translating the
> WEB source in
> which TEX is written into C source code. Its output is not
> self-contained, however; it makes
> extensive use of many macros and functions in a library (the
> ‘web2c/lib’ directory in the
> sources). Therefore, it will not work without change on an arbitrary
> WEB program. <etc>.
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