local file question

[Tom Sgouros]

Hi Herb:

By "my files" I mean the packages and fonts I've written and accumulated
over the past thirty years of using LaTeX. Yes, it seems kind of improbable
to me, too.

The problem with a link is that by the next time I upgrade or change
machines, I'll forget what it's doing there. I was hoping that someone here
would have some insight into how the "~" comes to have a different meaning
inside the texlive texmf.cnf than it does in the shell. Why is one
"/Users/tom" and the other is "/Users/tom/Library" and can I change that?

Thanks,

 -Tom

On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 8:54 AM Herbert Schulz <herbs2 at mac.com> wrote:

>
>
> > On Oct 22, 2023, at 10:22 PM, Tom Sgouros <tsgouros at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all:
> >
> > I recently installed TexLive 2023 on my Mac (Macos13.2), and it seems
> like variables like "TEXMFHOME = ~/texmf" defined in the system-wide
> texmf.cnf resolve to /Users/tom/Library/texmf instead of "Users/tom/texmf".
> How can I make them resolve to where my files are?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> >  -Tom
>
> Howdy,
>
> What do you mean by `my files'? The personal tree is really meant for
> peersonal packages and possibly personal fonts. You can put your source
> files anywhere.
>
> One thing you can do is to make a symbolic link in ~/Library to your
> files: run
>
> ln -s ~/texmf ~/Library/texmf
>
> which will produce a small file that points to your files.
>
> There are other things you can do but I suggest this is the simplest.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> herbs2 at mac.com
>
>
>
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