[XeTeX] ~/Library/texmf/tex/...?

[Stephen Moye]

On Feb 19, 2006, at 5:59 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> On 19 Feb 2006, at 7:14 pm, Stephen Moye wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure that I understand the change that seems to have  
>> occurred with XeTeX 0.99, fontspec 1.9 and the most recent version  
>> of xkeyval.
>>
>> At some point in the not too distant past I was putting all (xe) 
>> latex items in ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex, and everything seemed to  
>> work without a problem. Now, unless xkeyval is in ~/Library/texmf/ 
>> tex/xelatex, fontspec seems not to work. Is there now a  
>> requirement for this directory? What should be put in it?
>>
>> Thanks for any insights...
>
> I'm not sure if there was a specific change in the software (don't  
> think so); or if something changed in texmf.cnf rather than in the  
> software itself (this is possible); or if there were changes in the  
> other packages included with gwTeX and/or XeTeX (this is likely).
>
> Anyhow, you can use the -kpathsea-debug option with xelatex to  
> determine exactly what paths it searches for a given file. On my  
> machine, the path for a .sty file is shown as:

That's clear. But I seem to be making a muddle of using the -kpathsea- 
debug option: what precisely did you input on the command line to get  
the output you  showed?

Thanks again.

SGM