[OS X TeX] apacite on stock MacTeX install -- working?

[Herbert Schulz]

On Feb 28, 2007, at 9:26 AM, brian at pongonova.net wrote:

> I'm trying to get apacite to work with a stock MacTeX install on my
> iBook.  It's been frustrating, to say the least :)  Lots of
> conflicting information about what directories need to be under
> ~/Library/texmf to make this work, but this is what some trial and
> error has led me to:
>
> ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/dissertation.bib
> ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bst/apacite.{bst|sty}
> ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/apacite/
>

Howdy,

The .sty file must be placed in

~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/

and it may be necessary to put .bib files in

~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib/

rather than ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/ directly.

> Pertinent TeX info:
>
> =====================================================================
>
> \documentclass[12pt,english]{report}
> \usepackage{times}
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
> \usepackage{geometry}
> \geometry 
> {verbose,letterpaper,tmargin=1in,bmargin=1in,lmargin=1.5in,rmargin=1in 
> }
> \setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
> \setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
> ...

You also need to insert

\usepackage{apacite}

into you preamble.

By the way, why are you including \usepackage{..} commands between  
\makeatletter and \makeatother? Packages are already loaded with that  
set and it may be (I'm not sure about this) turned off at the end of  
the package input.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)



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