[OS X TeX] Question about MacTex

Itamar Francez itamar.francez at yale.edu
Fri Sep 28 16:56:17 CEST 2007


This worked. Thanks a million!

On Sep 28, 2007, at 10:45 AM, Axel E. Retif wrote:

> On  28 Sep, 2007, at 09:04, Itamar Francez wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I'm new to the list. I have installed recently MacTex on my mac and
>> everything works great, except that I have to store all my .tex files
>> under one folder. If I have sub-folder (e.g. with all the files
>> relevant to some project), Texshop tells me it can't find some of
>> my .sty files (particularly, gb4e.sty) and some of my .bst files. I
>> tried to copy the .sty file to:
>>  /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex
>
> When you add files to directories inside /usr/local/texlive... you  
> have to
>
> sudo texhash
>
> in Terminal.app.
>
>> but this didn't help. I also created a texmf folder on my home
>> directory, that's not helping either.
>
> You have to put the texmf directory inside your Library directory;  
> that is, your HOME texmf directory is, on the Mac, $HOME/Library/ 
> texmf, and you have to create subdirectories there, like ~/Library/ 
> texmf/tex/latex and ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bst.
>
> There is no need to texhash here.
>
> Best,
>
> Axel
>
>
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