[OS X TeX] files in ~/Library/texmf

[Alan Munn]

At 1:34 PM -0500 12/18/07, Matthew Leingang wrote:
>Hi Alan,
>
>Which is it that can't find your local files? TeXShop or pdflatex on 
>the command line?

Well, I thought that it was both, but now, not quite. TeXShop 
certainly couldn't find anything, but then switching to the command 
line, graphics were found, but bibtex doesn't find my bibliography 
file.

>If it's TeXShop, did it crash recently?  I've had what happened to 
>you happen to me in that situation, and the problem went away when I 
>quit TexShop and relaunched it.  A little lame, but it worked.

TeXShop hadn't crashed, but I quit out of it anyway, and it did, in 
fact, fix the problem for TeXShop.  Thanks.  Since I don't generally 
use the command line for this sort of thing, I'm happy enough that it 
works from within TeXShop.

So now the question changes a little:

why does bibtex called within TeXShop find my bib file, but bibtex 
called from the command line doesn't?

Alan




>
>On Dec 18, 2007, at 11:17 AM, Alan Munn wrote:
>
>>For some reason (pdf)latex can no longer find files in my local 
>>texmf folder, even though I haven't (AFAIK) done anything recently 
>>to change it.  Among the things is now fails to find are:
>>
>>png files stored in ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/graphics
>>bib files stored in ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib
>>bst files stored in ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bst
>>
>>All of these used to be found with no problems.  The problem seems 
>>to arise whether or not I call latex from the command line or from 
>>within TeXShop.
>>
>>If I move the files to the same directory as the file I'm latexing, 
>>then things work.
>>
>>Can someone give me some suggestions on how to troubleshoot this?  
>>(I swear I haven't changed my system recently (running MacTeX on OS 10.4))
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Alan
>>
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Alan Munn 
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Department of Linguistics                             
and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages   Fax.  +1-517-432-2736
Michigan State University, East Lansing MI 48824       Tel.  +1-517-355-7491