[OS X TeX] Syncing in one direction only

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jan 6, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote:

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> On Jan 6, 2011, at 5:51 PM, Don Green Dragon wrote:
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>> No, I did not so understand. On the other hand, I had no intention of modifying <texmf.cnf> until I knew more about the situation. I have to find that message from Bruno Voisin that Alain Schremmer referred to.
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> Look at the thread  Error: I can't write on file '(name)'
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> March 22, 2007
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> Here is, I think, what Voisin said to do and what I did.
> Regards
> --schremmer
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> Le 22 mars 07 à 12:45, Jonathan Kew a écrit :
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>> Find the line
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>>    openout_any = p
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>> in there; change to
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>>    openout_any = r
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>> and I think you'll be OK. ("a" would be even more permissive than "r", but I don't think you need that.)
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> Thanks for this tip, that's helpful. I knew about the -R option (= secure mode) of dvips, and about the -shell-escape and -no-shell-escape options of pdftex, but I didn't suspect there was this switch in addition for pdftex in texmf.cnf.
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> Regarding texmf.cnf, the gwTeX and MacTeX/TeXLive setups are a bit different. With MacTeX/TeXLive, there is one single texmf.cnf at:
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> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
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> which is the file to edit. With gwTeX, there are two different texmf.cnf at:
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Howdy,

That's just plain wrong! There are two texmf.cnf files. The base file, with the initial settings and most of the information one needs, is in /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/web2c while the one to edit is in /usr/local/texlive/2010.

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> Hence, for MacTeX/TeXLive simply *edit* the unique /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf as said above, while for gwTeX you need to *add*:
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>    openout_any = r
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> to /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.cnf.
> ...

No, no no! Edit the one in /usr/local/texlive/2010 if you want to make changes. Add the changed lines and they will override the ones in the base file.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)