[tex-live] personal input file

[Zdenek Wagner]

2010/2/15 Steve MC Han <hmc0907 at yahoo.com>

> Thank you very much for your responses.
>
> I followed your instruction and it showed:
>
> c:/TexLive2007/../texmf-local
>
> But there's no texmf-local subdirectory under TexLive2007. Instead there's
> texmf-local directory right under c:/ along with TexLive2007.
> (c:/TexLive2007, c:/texmf-local,...)
>
> Under c:/texmf-local there are 4 subdirectories: doc, dvips, fonts and tex.
>
> Can you tell me which?
>
>
c:/texmf-local/tex
It seems that TEXMFHOME does not exist on your computer


> For upgrading: last year I tried to upgrade to TexLive2008, but I have had
> bad experiences, so I try not to anymore as long as TexLive2007 along with
> metapost 0.9 work. (Or until new TexLive could be downloaded with a couple
> of simple  clicks)
>
>
What kind of bad experiences?

If your network connection is good, you unpack install-tl.zip, run
install-tl.bat, select what to install and wait. texmf-local intentionally
is not below TeXLive2007, your personal file will be used by later TL
versions as well, no need to reinstall.

My computer sits on a gigabit backbone, our local mirror is about 5 miles
apart so installation of scheme-full takes about 9 minutes but normal users
will probably have to wait longer.


> Thanks,
> Steve
>
>
>
> --- On *Sun, 2/14/10, Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [tex-live] personal input file
> To: "Steve MC Han" <hmc0907 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: tex-live at tug.org
> Date: Sunday, February 14, 2010, 8:16 PM
>
> ** Steve MC Han [2010-02-14 19:26:29 -0800]:
>
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was wondering where I could store personal input files so that I could
> call from any working directory instead of making the same input file
> for the current working directory each time.
> >
> > I am using  latex of TexLive2007 in my personal PC with WinEdt editor.
> >
> To be short: in TEXMFHOME
>
> E.g.
> %USERPROFILE%/texmf/tex/latex
> for latex stuff or
> %USERPROFILE%/texmf/tex/plain
> for plain tex stuff.
>
> For precise location of TEXMFHOME on Windows read TL 2007 documentation
> (search for TEXMFHOME).
>
> More details and some explanation could be found here
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=what-TDS
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=privinst
>
>
> P.S. I advise you to upgrade your TeX system.
>
> --
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>         -- Errol Flynn
>
> Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
>         -- Errol Flynn
>
>
>


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Zdeněk Wagner
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