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Manuel Souto Pico wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">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 Wow, so many new things, I've got really out of date!</pre>
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Yes, from your screen dump it appears you have teTeX.<br>
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<pre wrap="">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 </pre>
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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).<br>
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<pre wrap="">MacTeX is just the package that
installs it (as well as other things?) on the Mac.
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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!<br>
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<pre wrap="">I think I've put all the packages I downloaded manually in
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~/Library/texmf/tex/latex but I might have put something in the texmf.local
as well (like bibtex, arabi, etc.). </pre>
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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.<br>
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<pre wrap="">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.</pre>
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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.<br>
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<pre wrap="">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...
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Yes.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Unless that by "custome files" you were referring to my .tex documents...
Those are somewhere else.
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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.<br>
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<pre wrap="">The contents of my texmf.local are: <snip></pre>
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In MacTeX/TL09, that will be: /usr/local/texmf-local/<br>
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> ....<br>
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<pre wrap="">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??
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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!<br>
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United in adoration of Jesus,
fr. michael gilmary, mma
Most Holy Trinity Monastery
67 Dugway Road
Petersham, MA 01366-9725
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