[OS X TeX] Lost in Mac space

[Victor Ivrii]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 11:21 PM, George Ghio <gghi at bordernet.com.au> wrote:
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> Hi Victor
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> Thank you for your detailed response. All the advice seems to come back to
> having a file "texmf"
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> I have - MacHD/library/tex/root/texmf

This is a symbolic link; let's leave it alone. At near future I put
some description in MacTeX wiki


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> and - georgeghio/library/texshop - No texmf.

it is

/Users/georghio/Library

>
> My understanding is that "home" is "georgeghio". But if I put a texmf file
> in - georgeghio/library - tex does not find it or files in it.

You create directory (folder) texmf there, if you want to put foo.sty
you need to create

/Users/georghio/Library/texmf/tex/latex/

and foo.sty goes there - it must be in TDS (TeX Directory Structure)

>
> Does this mean that the package needs to be downloaded then opened in texmf
> in my home library to be recognized by tex.
>
> What about packages that are not TDS.

See above


>
> The ultimate goal is a document where text wraps around graphics. Perhaps I
> am just too blind to see the bleeding obvious/
>
> George L Ghio



This is wrapfig, part of TeXLive 2008, no need to download


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