[OS X TeX] Experimental MacTeX Packages

[Jon Breitenbucher]

What I have found is that I now need to run sudo texhash after  
putting something in ~/Library/texmf before it is found where I  
didn't need to do this in the past.

On Dec 25, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Richard Koch wrote:

> Eric,
>
> On my machine, the MacTeX TeXLive-2005 package does find local  
> files. Notice that such files are in ~/Library/texmf rather than / 
> Library/texmf. That is, they are in the Library folder in your home  
> directory.
>
> I tested using kpsewhich. The command
>
> 	kpsewhich pdfscreen.sty
>
> returned
>
> 	/usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdfscreen/pdfscreen.sty
>
> because this is in the regular texlive distribution, but the command
>
> 	 kpsewhich ly1hlx.fd
>
> correctly located a local Lucida support file
>
> 	/Users/koch/Library/texmf/tex/latex/lucida/ly1hlx.fd
>
> Dick
> koch at math.uoregon.edu
>
> On Dec 25, 2006, at 11:53 AM, Eric van der Oord wrote:
>> Nevertheless I have a litle problem with TeXLive-2005 : files in  
>> Library/texmf are not found.
>>
>> gwTeX runs fine.
>>
>> Eric
>> Le 23 déc. 06 à 07:21, Richard Koch a écrit :
>>
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> Experimental MacTeX packages are available for testing at
>>>
>>> 	www.tug.org/~koch/NewPackages.html
>>>
>>> These packages adopt Gerben Wierda and Jerome Lauren's new data  
>>> structure for handling multiple TeX distributions. I am an  
>>> enthusiastic supporter of their work.
>
>
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