[lucida] Installation problem on MacTeX 2007

Axel E. Retif axel.retif at mac.com
Mon May 5 01:04:04 CEST 2008


On May 4, 2008, at 13:16, Norbert Preining wrote:

> On So, 04 Mai 2008, Axel E. Retif wrote:
>> Of course that was very badly phrased: anything you install in any
>> texmf tree won't be recognized by TeX & friends until you do a  
>> texhash.
>
> Wrong. It depends on wether there are !! in front of the tree in
> texmf.cnf.
>
> TEXMFHOME, TEXMFCONFIG, TEXMFVAR normally don't need ls-R databases.

Well, as I said in my badly phrased email,

> except, as you work on a Mac, ~/Library/texmf.

As a matter of fact, there is another directory that doesn't need a  
texhash on the Mac: ~/.texlive2007, with a texmf-var inside it, but I  
doubt any TeX user on the Mac uses it.

Best,

Axel




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