[OS X TeX] texmf.cnf

[Arthur Snoke]

In my previous installations, on Sun Solaris, I used an environmental  
variable TEXINPUTS.  This did not work in the OS X version I am using  
(Gerben Wierda's i-installer installaton).  I tried following the  
instructions in the /usr/local teTeX file README.howtexfindsfiles.txt  
and got it so that latex could find my .eps files, but dvips (and  
dvipdf) could not.

I then looked at the Tex on Mc OSX page (which led me to this  
listserv) and found suggestions of differnt paths to use for local  
files.  I took out the TEXINPUTS.latex entry in the texmf.cnf file  
and did a

ln -s mypath ~/Library/texmf/tex/misc

and both latex and dvips had no problem finding my files.

I suggest the file README.howtexfindsfiles.txt be modified to reflect  
this alternative.

On Nov 7, 2005, at 1:09 PM, Alain Matthes wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> Sorry the . in front of the path was a mistake. Normaly i put
>
> TEXINPUTS.pdflatex = 	   .;$HOME/BWork/Base;$TEXMF/{pdftex,tex}/ 
> {latex,generic,}//
>
> in the file texmf.cnf
>
> $HOME  is set to : /Users/ego
>
> and yes i'm trying to set placement of input files. I always make  
> this without problem but after the clean install of tiger and idem  
> for TeX with i-Installer, the files are not found.
>
> (I make a try with a symbolic link but i've a problem with sub- 
> directories)
>
> Greetings ( sorry for my bad english)
>
> Alain Matthes
>
>
> Le 7 nov. 05 à 15:46, Herbert Schulz a écrit :
>
>>
>> On Nov 7, 2005, at 8:16 AM, Alain Matthes wrote:
>>
>>> I make this try ./Users/ego/Work/Base with a file try.tex in Base.
>>>
>>> But this don't work again. Before Tiger and with the last tetex  
>>> in 2004, all works fine.
>>>
>>> Greetings  Alain Matthes
>>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> Why is there a . in front of the path? That would make the path  
>> relative to what directory you're starting in rather than the  
>> absolute path to the directory.
>>
>> Are you trying to set the placement of included/input files? If  
>> that's true it might be easier to make symbolic links from the  
>> directory you use into the directory in the standard personal  
>> texmf branch, ~/Library/texmf/ (assuming you're using the gwTeX  
>> distribution), So you don't have to change anything at that low  
>> level.
>>
>> Good Luck,
>>
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>>
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