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

Stephen Moye stephenmoye at mac.com
Mon Feb 20 15:05:50 CET 2006


 
On Monday, February 20, 2006, at 06:59AM, Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org> wrote:

>On 20 Feb 2006, at 11:46 am, Stephen Moye wrote:
>>>
>>> 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?
>
>I entered something like
>
>	xelatex -kpathsea-debug=-1 dummy.sty
>
>which generates reams of tracing output; then I searched for the line
>
>	kdebug:kpse_find_file: searching for dummy.sty of type tex (from  
>texmf.cnf)
>
>and extracted the path information from the "start search" line that  
>follows; then I changed the colons to newlines just to make it easier  
>to read.

Perfect, as usual. Thanks.

SGM



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