[texhax] Where to put amslatex package files on a PC?

Fri Nov 13 17:01:46 CET 2009

Well, this were 2 HTML postings (therefore unreadable for many), the second of which said that the problem has been resolved by AMS LaTeX support. The first posting said that AMS LaTeX documentation tell users to install the files in the "TEXMF" folder (and another advice not applying). The poster said he is working with a MiKTeX installation. I think MiKTeX recently by default used "miktex" instead of "texmf" for the TeX installation tree.  AMS LaTeX documentation should account for this. -- Cheers, Uwe. 

<inquiries at mortonresearch.org> schrieb am 12.11.2009 23:22:26:
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thank you.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">TM</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">Subject:</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma"> Where to put amslatex package files on a PC?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">’</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">m on a Windows PC</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">using WinShell and</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> MiKTe</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">X and downloaded the package called: amslatex, zipped as gsm_amslatex.zip.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I read the file README-M-L.TXT</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">included in the package</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">, but it says for me to "make a copy of the file chapter.template to <uniquename>.tex"</FONT></SPAN></P>
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">but there is no file named chapter.templ</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ate included with the files in gsm_amslatex.zip.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">README-M-L.TXT file also suggests that I get technical and administrative information from the AMS Author FAQ:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">     <A HREF="http://www.ams.org/authors/author-faq.html">http://www.ams.org/authors/author-faq.html</A></FONT></SPAN></P>
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">but her</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">e, the section entitled: "Technical Topics, Running (La)TeX - where to install packages, etc."</FONT></SPAN></P>
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">says to:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">"First, check that you have placed the package files in the local TEXMF tree where TeX is supposed to look for them. For an AMS-LaTeX author package, th</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">e recommended location is TEXMF/tex/latex/ams-author-info."</FONT></SPAN></P>
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">but there is no such folder named "TEXMF" on my entire computer.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">If I am supposed to create it, this instruction is sufficiently clear; for I could create TEXMF in any of the following locations:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">C:\\</FONT></SPAN></P>
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">C:\\Program Files</FONT></SPAN></P>
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">C:\\Program Files\WinShell</FONT></SPAN></P>
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">C:\\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8</FONT></SPAN></P>
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">C:\\Documents and Settings\My_AMS_Book</FONT></SPAN></P>
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">etc.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">(Everything works fine on the demo files in the package, but it creates too many files in that location, so I don't want to create m</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">y book there.)</FONT></SPAN></P>
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">By the way, when I go to MiKTeX, as suggested by <A HREF="http://www.ams.org/authors/author-faq.html">http://www.ams.org/authors/author-faq.html</A>, it doesn't tell where to put the packages either. It only tells how to install packages from a list, the locations of which are truncated so as not</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> to reveal the entire path, as in the AMS instructions.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I know these are all errors in the AMS</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">’</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">s instructions, but when I spoke with ams tech-support, but they said:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">  “N</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ot being a user of winshell or miktex (and no one else here is either -- we all use t</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ex on unix/linux systems), the best advice i can give is to check the miktex documentation.</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">”</FONT></SPAN></P>
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">So if you could let me know where I should place the amslatex package files, I would really appreciate it.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thank you.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">T</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">M</FONT></SPAN></P>
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