[OS X TeX] Finder access to the system-wide local texmf directory
Bruno Voisin
bvoisin at mac.com
Tue Jan 16 09:23:26 CET 2007
I was under the impression that the TeXDist structure provided a
direct access to the system-wide local texmf directory that was (i)
distribution-independent and (ii) Finder-friendly (ie no path to
input, no Terminal), through a symlink
/Library/TeX/Local
pointing for the gwTeX and TeXLive 2007 distributions to, respectively,
/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local
/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
in the same way as the symlink
/Library/TeX/Root
points for gwTeX and TeXLive to, respectively,
/usr/local/gwTeX
/usr/local/texlive/2007
Alas, after upgrading this morning to TeXLive 2007 this doesn't seem
to be the case. As a result, you can indeed access the local texmf
tree using normal navigation in the Finder for gwTeX (by going to /
Library/TeX/Root and then inside it to texmf.local), but not for
TeXLive (once in /Library/TeX/Root you would have to go one level up
in the directory hierarchy, to ../, which the Finder doesn't normally
allows). Then, in the latter case, to navigate to this local tree in
the Finder you have either:
- Once in /Library/TeX/Root, to Cmd-Click the window title to go up
one level to texlive then inside it to texmf-local.
- To use Cmd-Shift-G then enter directly the path /usr/local/texlive/
texmf-local.
The TeXDist structure does provide distribution-independent access to
the local texmf tree, through the symlink
/Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/TexmfLocal
but given this symlink contains a hidden directory you have again to
resort to Cmd-Shift-G or to the Terminal in order to use it.
Did I just dream the whole thing, and did /Library/TeX/Local never
exist in which case I would be making a confusion with /Library/TeX/
Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/TexmfLocal?
Bruno Voisin
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