[OS X TeX] LaTeX "forgetting" texmf

[Simon Spiegel]

On 10.01.2006, at 01:51, Ross Moore wrote:


>
> If your  texnf.cnf  file is setup in a strictly CDS-compliant way,
> then the answer to this question would be 'yes' --- provided also
> that you have done  'sudo texhash' since adding the new package.
>
> BTW, it doesn't have to be 'ucs' --- any sub-directory will do;
> such as 'misc' or 'mystyles' or 'others', etc.
>
>
> However  gwTeX  is more lenient, and should allow the package
> to be found anywhere (I think) within the  ~/Library/texmf/  tree.
> (Others will doubtless correct this statement if it's wrong.)
> Is this what you are using ? ...
>  ... with TeXShop, or with some other front-end software?

This happens with TeXShop.
>
>
> If you share packages with other (in particular, non-Mac) authors,  
> then
> there are advantages to keeping your packages in a TDS-compliant way.
>
>
>> This doesn't work; besides that, most of the time my documents  
>> compile with the setup I have, but sometimes they just don't-
>
> That is a mystery then.
>
> Does it help to do:  'sudo texhash'  ?

texhash doesn't help.
> Is it only after adding a new package that it fails,
> or can it fail again after having worked for awhile?

As described in the OT this happens randomly after awaking my machine  
from sleep.

>
>
> BTW, you can get the path-searching information from
> a running LaTeX job by changing the command that you
> use to:
>
>    pdflatex -kpathsea-debug=7  myfile.tex
>
> either on the command-line or in the TeXshop Engine panel,
> accessed via "Preferences...".
>
> Using 7 gives even more printout that using 1.
> viz.,  7 => 111 in binary, so sets 3 debugging flags.
> (There are up to 16 (perhaps more) available bits controlling
> different debugging modes.)
>
> Please don't post all the printout to the list, but restrict
> it to those lines that refer to  ttfucs.sty  and  texmf.cnf .

Ok, this gives me

kdebug:kpse_normalize_path (/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple- 
darwin6.8/texmf.cnf) => 1
kdebug:kpse_normalize_path (/usr/local/teTeX/bin/texmf.cnf) => 1
kdebug:kpse_normalize_path (/usr/local/teTeX/texmf.cnf) => 1
kdebug:kpse_normalize_path (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/ 
texmf.cnf) => 1
kdebug:fopen(/usr/local/teTeX/texmf.cnf, r) => 0xa000e790
kdebug:fopen(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf, r) =>  
0xa000e790

but nothing refering to ttfucs.sty

thanks

simon




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