[OS X TeX] Intertext like command

[Alain Schremmer]

OK. Deep breath.

(1) Should I pull the .sty from MY texmf tree?
(2) Should I do anything else to return to a pristine, innocent set up?
(3) One thing is for sure and that is that as soon as I have written 
another chapter I will get down there and look at ALL the documentation 
about all that stuff that I probably have but don't know I have.
(4) Where can I find the type of instruction I need to "activate" all 
that stuff that I probably have but don't know I have. Down there too?
(5) Thanks very, very much for your patience with me.

Regards
--schremmer


On Jul 13, 2004, at 9:23 PM, Herb Schulz wrote:

> On 7/13/04 7:57 PM, "Alain Schremmer" <Schremmer.Alain at verizon.net> 
> wrote:
>
>> More tribulations of a T(eX)I(nstall)C(hallenged).
>>
>> (1) I looked in" /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/doc/latex/mdwtools/"
>> . Amazing how much stuff there is that far down. It's like in a SciFi
>> story. (And I, a neophyte, was expected to go and look?)
>>
>
> Howdy,
>
> Most of the doc files for latex packages can be accessed through
> /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/doc/latex/ or the
> .../texmf.gwtex/doc/latex/ or .../texmf.local/doc/latex/...
>
>> (2) I found the .dvi files. I copied them to the desktop. Since I
>> didn't understand what "dropping the copies onto TeXShop for 
>> conversion
>> to .pdf" meant and after a couple of hapless manoeuvers, just to see
>> what would happen, I double-clicked on the first one. And, why not, I
>> clicked on Typeset in this blank, white page that was sitting there 
>> and
>> of course nothing happened. But while I was considering my options,
>> there popped up the pdf. More and more amazing!
>>
>
> Just click and hold on the document icon and drag it onto the TeXShop 
> icon.
> Then you've got to wait (with no obvious thing happening, Sigh...) and 
> the
> pdf ``just appears.''
>
>> (3) Now, I didn't know I already had these mdwtools. (How would I? In
>> fact, before I went for the dvi files, I had checked i-Installer but
>> couldn't see that "Gerben adds them to his distribution".)
>>
>
> The easiest thing to do is try to include the package you want and see 
> if
> you get an error. It's scary to do that at first but nothing is going 
> to
> break if it isn't there, you'll just get an error message and 
> processing
> will stop.
>
>> Indeed, yesterday, I had downloaded the mdwTools from CTAN (but I had
>> only been able to get one .pdf. I forget why.)  But I had created the
>> .sty files and put them in My/Library/texmf/tex/latex.
>>
>> And here is my question. How come I already had the mdwTools but the
>> .sty files were not already in My/Library/texmf/tex/latex before I put
>> them in?
>>
>
> That's because the mdwtools package files are not in YOUR texmf tree 
> but in
> the texmf.textex branch of the tree; i.e., they are part of the teTeX
> distribution that gwTeX includes.
>
>> Does this mean that I have other stuff that I am not aware of and that
>> I have to do something to somehow "activate" them? Where can I find
>> this type of instruction?
>>
>
> Probably.
>
>> Regards
>> --schremmer
>>
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>
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