Thank you, Michael<br><br>I understand better now.<br><br>
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However, let me please ask this. What is the best way to update? I<br>
understand that the latest MacTex.mpkg.zip will allow me to install<br>
MacTex-2009 but that won't uninstall my current version. So it's like<br>
different programs, right?<br>
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I think MacTeX will install a separate branch on the tree, something like:<br>
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/usr/local/texlive/2009/ETC.ETC.<br>
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so it will find what it needs and (I think) ignore older installations (maybe you have teTeX?). </blockquote><div><br>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 Wow, so many new things, I've got really out of date! :) I do have<br>
<br>kettle:/usr/local/teTeX/share souto$ ls -l <br>total 0<br>drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Nov 10 2006 lcdf-typetools<br>drwxr-xr-x 14 root wheel 476 Nov 10 2006 texi2html<br>drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204 Nov 10 2006 texinfo<br>
drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 340 Jul 15 2007 texmf<br>drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Nov 10 2006 texmf-var<br>drwxr-xr-x 21 root wheel 714 Jul 15 2007 texmf.gwtex<br>drwxrwxrwx 19 root wheel 646 Jul 15 2007 texmf.local<br>
drwxr-xr-x 22 root wheel 748 Jul 15 2007 texmf.tetex<br><br>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 but :) the name for the standard distribution nowadays and that MacTeX is just the package that installs it (as well as other things?) on the Mac. <br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Then, it will probably be safe to dump all the old stuff --- unless you have custom files in some texmf-local folders.<div class="im">
<br></div></blockquote><div>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.). 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. 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... <br>
<br>Unless that by "custome files" you were referring to my .tex documents... Those are somewhere else.<br><br>The contents of my texmf.local are:<br><br>kettle:/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local souto$ ls -l<br>
total 9976<br>drwxr-xr-x 4 souto wheel 136 Jan 22 2007 arabi<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 souto wheel 4994659 Jan 22 2007 arabi.tar.gz<br>drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Nov 10 2006 bibtex<br>drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 Nov 10 2006 context<br>
drwxrwxr-x 12 souto wheel 408 Dec 16 2006 doc<br>drwxrwxr-x 7 souto wheel 238 Jan 22 2007 dvips<br>drwxrwxr-x 15 souto wheel 510 Dec 16 2006 fonts<br>drwxrwxr-x 3 souto wheel 102 Dec 16 2006 latex<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 109682 Jul 15 2007 ls-R<br>drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Nov 10 2006 metapost<br>drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Nov 10 2006 scripts<br>drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 Nov 10 2006 source<br>
drwxrwxrwx 10 root wheel 340 Oct 26 1999 tex<br>drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Nov 9 2006 tex4ht<br>drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204 Nov 10 2006 tpm<br>drwxr-xr-x 53 root wheel 1802 Mar 14 2007 web2c<br>
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There's no update command that I can just run, I<br>
guess.<br>
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Actually, TeXlive manager does just that ... </blockquote><div><br>Good improvement. <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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.</blockquote><div><br>Yes, I have to do that, but I need to free some disk space first... :( <br></div>
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By the way, what is Web2C?<br>
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>From the Web2C doc (web2c.pdf), Karl Berry and Olaf Weber state:<br>
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Web2c is the name of a TEX implementation, originally for Unix, but now also running<br>
under DOS, Amiga, and other operating systems. By TEX implementation, we mean all<br>
of the standard programs developed by the Stanford TEX pro ject directed by Donald E.<br>
Knuth: Metafont, DVItype, GFtoDVI, BibTEX, Tangle, etc., as well as TEX itself. Other<br>
programs are also included: DVIcopy, written by Peter Breitenlohner, MetaPost and its<br>
utilities (derived from Metafont), by John Hobby, etc.<br>
General strategy: Web2c works, as its name implies, by translating the WEB source in<br>
which TEX is written into C source code. Its output is not self-contained, however; it makes<br>
extensive use of many macros and functions in a library (the ‘web2c/lib’ directory in the<br>
sources). Therefore, it will not work without change on an arbitrary WEB program. <etc>.<br>
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<br></div></div></blockquote><div>Had never heard of this (or can't remember). <br><br>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?? <br>
</div><div><br>Once again, thanks for your help! <br>Manuel<br></div></div>