[XeTeX] LaTeX Error: File polyglossia.sty not found

[Fr. Michael Gilmary]

Manuel Souto Pico wrote:


> The truth is that I'm confused with so many names: texlive, teTeX, MacTeX,
> gwtex... but judging by what I'm reading in related websites, I must have
> tetex. Wow, so many new things, I've got really out of date!


Yes, from your screen dump it appears you have teTeX.


> I've just seen teTex is not developed any more and I've sort of grasped that
> texlive is (not a live distribution runnable from a cd 


Actually, I think you can get the CD (if you've still got something like 
a "dial-up" connection) ... and they even have a scaled-down version 
runnable from a CD (I haven't looked at it, but I think you can download 
that, too, and burn your own CD).


> MacTeX is just the package that
> installs it (as well as other things?) on the Mac.
>   


Yes, I think that MacTeX is a whole lot of TeX and LaTeX and XeTeX and 
XeLaTeX stuff packaged for a breezy Mac installation --- thanks, again, 
to all the geniuses who put it together!



> I think I've put all the packages I downloaded manually in
>
> ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex but I might have put something in the texmf.local
> as well (like bibtex, arabi, etc.). 


Well, if you're the only user on your Mac, then it's OK to put it in 
your ~/Library ... but I think MacTeX will install higher up the tree at 
the /usr/local/ level.


> I guess what I can do after installing
> MacTex2009 is rename or move somewhere else the teTeX folder (from the path
> above) and see whether everything works fine after that.

Yes, esp. if your other stuff is in ~/Library since it might look there 
to override the system-wide stuff at /usr/local (Can some guru verify 
this for me .. I've learned it all the hard way: trial and error with 
emphasis on error). So maybe rename the ~/Library/texmf to something 
like ~/Library/OLDtexmf or whatever.


> If I find later on
> that one of my documents doesn't compile well, I guess I can always re-copy
> or download the missing packages myself...
>   

Yes.


> Unless that by "custome files" you were referring to my .tex documents...
> Those are somewhere else.
>   

Right. Those are not the "custom files" I was referring to. Rather I 
meant any files of modifications or macros that you made for yourself to 
change the behavior of packages, etc.


> The contents of my texmf.local are:   <snip>


In MacTeX/TL09, that will be: /usr/local/texmf-local/
and it will keep any package updates you download later --- until your 
next installation of TeXLive. For your personal customizations, it's 
best to keep them in ~/Libaray/texmf/<whatever else follows> ....


> Another thing, if I may, but out of curiosity (not vital to solve my
> problem): web2c is a tex implementation and texlive, gwtex or tetex are tex
> distributions, but are "implementation" and "distribution" the same thing in
> the context of tex??
>   


I don't think so. Maybe web2c is part of the nuts and bolts of making 
TeX and friends work, whereas TeXLive, etc are collections of all the 
latest (as of a certain date) classes, packages, etc. that you use. Have 
a look at web2c.pdf as well as TETEXDOC.pdf --- both come with the 
TeXLive 2009 install. Again, I have only the most indistinct knowledge 
of all this. Fortunately, it works for me without knowing how!



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fr. michael gilmary, mma

Most Holy Trinity Monastery
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