[OS X TeX] Using Babel with I-Installer tex installation

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jun 30, 2005, at 8:50 AM, Frederick Hoyt wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A follow-up: following suggestions by Bruno and Piet, I deleted any  
> and all babel-related files in my ~/Library/texmf tree and reran  
> texhash. This allowed me to compile the document.
>
> I had placed the babel files under my ~/ tree because I had assumed  
> that they would work like other latex style files, in the sense  
> that they can be located in either /usr/local/teTeX/ or in ~/ 
> Library/texmf, but apparently this was an incorrect assumption.
>
> Thanks to all for their help,
>
> Fred Hoyt
>

Howdy,

The search order is ~/Library/texmf/... first and then the other  
branches of the texmf tree. Therefore it was finding your personal  
(incorrect?) version and stopping there.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)


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