Overall, I am pretty happy with TeXshop. The only other thing I really use is RStudio, which provides good Sweave support. <br clear="all">------------------------------------------------<br>Yasmin Lucero<br>Postdoctoral Fellow<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:50 PM, soumya dipta <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:soumyadiptabanerjee@yahoo.com">soumyadiptabanerjee@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Hello Everyone,</span></div><div>I use texmaker as my primary latex editor and sometimes dabble with texshop, emacs....<br>
</div><div>I am curious if there are any new editors that come highly recommended... The deciding criterion are <br></div><div>1. It should be cheap preferably open source...</div><div>2. The learning curve shouldn't be too steep and yet all the functionality be available to an expert. <br>
</div><div><br></div><div>On a different note, has anyone here used latexian ? Any opinions?</div><div><a href="http://tacosw.com/latexian/" target="_blank">http://tacosw.com/latexian/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br>
</div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Shom<br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1">
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Re: Latex tree (Herbert Schulz)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:09:24 -0800<br>From: Rob Rye <<a href="mailto:rowenrye@gmail.com" target="_blank">rowenrye@gmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Pandoc<br>To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <<a href="mailto:macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu" target="_blank">macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu</a>><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:454E7D79-73BC-48D4-B122-BC0AADA65DE3@gmail.com" target="_blank">454E7D79-73BC-48D4-B122-BC0AADA65DE3@gmail.com</a>><br>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252<br><br><br>On Feb 26, 2011, at 7:04 AM, Alain Schremmer wrote:<br><br>> Has anyone had experience with Pandoc? <<a href="http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/" target="_blank">http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/</a>><br>
> <br>> I just found out about it: "If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife. [...] Pandoc is free software, released under the GPL. © 2006–2011 John MacFarlane."<br>
> <br>> I tried it on the site and it was impressive enough that I wanted to download it to give it a real try BUT:<br>>> Pandoc is in the MacPorts, Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, Arch, Fedora, NetBSD, and FreeBSD ports repositories. Note that the version of pandoc in these repositories may not be the most recent. There is also a Windows installer.<br>
>> <br>>> If an up-to-date package is not available for your system, an excellent way to install the latest release of pandoc is to install the Haskell platform on your system, then use the cabal tool:<br>>> <br>
>> cabal update<br>>> cabal install pandoc<br>>> This will
download and compile pandoc and all of its dependencies. If you want syntax highlighting support, add the flag -fhighlighting. If you do not want to install the wrapper script markdown2pdf, add -f-wrappers.<br>>> <br>
>> <br>> <br>> So, it is not for me but since there have been threads about conversion, I thought I might mention it.<br>> <br><br>Alain,<br><br>Your note regarding pandoc intrigued me. I would love to have such a tool at my fingertips. I have downloaded and installed everything and run an extremely simple test converting a brain dead simple .tex article file to a .html file. The conversion looked fine, but I have no idea how well things will go if I push it with more complex files.. When I get time to do so, I intend to report on its efficacy. As noted in the original post, pandoc does appear to be extremely versatile, what I don't yet know is whether each sort of conversion is also extremely finicky. <br>
<br>For those
interested in trying it out, it is remarkably simple to install the Haskell platform and to then install pandoc. The Haskell Platform, is available for download at:<br><br><a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html" target="_blank">http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html</a><br>
<br>The pair of .dmg packages that comprise the download will install everything you need to have in place in order to download and install pandoc (following the commands copied above). Note that documentation for other modes of installation for the Haskell platform (e.g. installing GHC, etc. piecemeal) indicated that XCode was required for GHC...<br>
<br>Iif you want to have pandoc "globally" available you will need to use<br><br>cabal install --global pandoc<br><br>This will put pandoc in /usr/local/bin. Otherwise the executable will end up on ~/.cabal/bin and you will need that folder in your path to be able to use pandoc.<br>
<br>I will stop for now for fear I
may be straying off-topic for this list, but, I the threads Alain mentioned suggest I am not the only one with interest in being able to convert .tex files into other formats for various and sundry reasons. <br><br>Cheers,<br>
<br>Rob<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 19:48:08 -0500<br>From: Alain Schremmer <<a href="mailto:schremmer.alain@gmail.com" target="_blank">schremmer.alain@gmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Pandoc<br>To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <<a href="mailto:macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu" target="_blank">macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu</a>><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:04183790-B00D-4277-B302-064D8950A0A7@gmail.com" target="_blank">04183790-B00D-4277-B302-064D8950A0A7@gmail.com</a>><br>
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format=flowed<br><br><br>On Feb 26, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Rob Rye wrote:<br><br>><br>> On Feb 26, 2011, at 7:04 AM, Alain Schremmer wrote:<br>><br>>> Has anyone had experience with Pandoc? <<a href="http://johnmacfarlane.net/" target="_blank">http://johnmacfarlane.net/</a> <br>
>> pandoc/><br>><br>> Your note regarding pandoc intrigued me. I would love to have such <br>> a tool at my fingertips. I have downloaded and installed everything <br>> and run an extremely simple test converting a brain dead <br>
> simple .tex article file to a .html file. The conversion looked <br>> fine, but I have no idea how well things will go if I push it with <br>> more complex files.. When I get time to do so, I intend to report <br>
> on its efficacy. As noted in the original post, pandoc does appear <br>> to be extremely versatile, what I don't yet know is whether each
<br>> sort of conversion is also extremely finicky.<br>><br>> For those interested in trying it out, it is remarkably simple to <br>> install the Haskell platform and to then install pandoc. The <br>> Haskell Platform, is available for download at:<br>
><br>> <a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html" target="_blank">http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html</a><br>><br>> The pair of .dmg packages that comprise the download will install <br>
> everything you need to have in place in order to download and <br>
> install pandoc (following the commands copied above). Note that <br>> documentation for other modes of installation for the Haskell <br>> platform (e.g. installing GHC, etc. piecemeal) indicated that XCode <br>
> was required for GHC...<br>><br>> Iif you want to have pandoc "globally" available you will need to use<br>><br>> cabal install
--global pandoc<br>><br>> This will put pandoc in /usr/local/bin. Otherwise the executable <br>> will end up on ~/.cabal/bin and you will need that folder in your <br>> path to be able to use pandoc.<br>><br>
> I will stop for now for fear I may be straying off-topic for this <br>> list, but, I the threads Alain mentioned suggest I am not the only <br>> one with interest in being able to convert .tex files into other <br>
> formats for various and sundry reasons.<br><br>One reason is that the way to epub is paved with html. So, I may bite <br>after all.<br><br>Best regards<br>--schremmer<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br>
<br>Message: 3<br>Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:04:07 -0800 (PST)<br>From: soumya dipta <<a href="mailto:soumyadiptabanerjee@yahoo.com" target="_blank">soumyadiptabanerjee@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: [OS X TeX] Latex tree<br>
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br><br>Hello,<br>I am trying to install some new packages in my system Mac OSX. <br>I will like to know what are the possible ways to do it. I also do not <br>
understand the local versus global tex tree structure and would like to know <br>
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii<br><br>On Feb 27, 2011, at 12:04 AM, soumya dipta wrote:<br><br>> <br>> Hello,<br>> I am trying to install some new packages in my system Mac OSX. <br>> I will like to know what are the
possible ways to do it. I also do not understand the local versus global tex tree structure and would like to know more about it.<br><br>On a Mac, the local texmf folder is located in the Library folder of your Home directory. This is usually notated as "~/Library/texmf", where the "~" means "your home directory" (i.e. what you get when you click on the Home icon in a Finder window.).<br>
<br>Unless there are multiple accounts on your machine that all need access to the same local files, this is the folder you should use.<br><br>When should I put things in the local texmf ?<br><br>Before putting anything into the local texmf folder, you should check that the relevant package isn't already part of TeXLive, and therefore included in the MacTeX distribution. The easiest way to do this is to use the TeXLive utility. This is especially true of packages on CTAN, most of which are included in TeXLive, and should already be
available to you.<br><br>If you know that a package is not available as part of TeXLive, then you should put it into your local texmf folder.<br><br>What goes where?<br><br>The texmf folder contains a number of folders, and these folders themselves contain other folders. For most users, the three top-level folders that are most important are the following:<br>
<br>Folder What goes in it <br><br>bibtex This is where bib files and bst files go. <br> It should contain at least the following folders: <br>bst Put bst files here. <br>bib Put bib files here.<br>
<br>tex This is where new packages go. <br> It should contain the following folders:<br><br>latex Put latex packages here (also biblatex styles) <br>plain Put plain tex files here.
<br>xelatex Put xelatex specific packages here.<br>xetex Put plain xetex files here.<br>context Put context files here.<br>generic Put files that are usable with any TeX flavour here. <br><br>doc Put documentation files from packages installed in the tex folder here. Putting the documentation files here allows them to be found by the texdoc system (or the "Show Help for Package" function in the Help menu of TeXShop).<br>
<br>Other top-level folders in include fonts, scripts, and source.<br><br>Alan<br><br><br>-- <br>Alan Munn<br><a href="mailto:amunn@gmx.com" target="_blank">amunn@gmx.com</a><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br>
<br>Message: 5<br>Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:40:32 -0500<br>From: George Gratzer <<a href="mailto:gratzer@me.com" target="_blank">gratzer@me.com</a>><br>Subject: [OS X TeX] pdf compare<br>To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <<a href="mailto:macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu" target="_blank">macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu</a>><br>
Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:06BA1CA5-31BC-449B-91AC-254C3E9D331C@me.com" target="_blank">06BA1CA5-31BC-449B-91AC-254C3E9D331C@me.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii<br><br>I have two pdf files, a book as submitted, the same book formatted.<br>
Both from tex sources, unavailable.<br><br>Is there is utility comparing the text of the two? Acrobat Pro<br>gets confused because of font changes.<br><br>GG<br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 6<br>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:51:28 +0800<br>From: "M. Tamer Özsu" <<a href="mailto:ozsut@mac.com" target="_blank">ozsut@mac.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [OS X
TeX] pdf compare<br>To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <<a href="mailto:macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu" target="_blank">macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu</a>><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:DC99E432-BC51-4635-9CC0-664DF95B83B4@mac.com" target="_blank">DC99E432-BC51-4635-9CC0-664DF95B83B4@mac.com</a>><br>
Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII<br><br>I think pdfdiff can do what you want -- it may be worth a try:<br><br><a href="http://people.inf.ethz.ch/cremersc/misc/pdfdiff.html" target="_blank">http://people.inf.ethz.ch/cremersc/misc/pdfdiff.html</a><br>
<br>==Tamer<br><br>On 2011-02-27, at 1:40 PM, George Gratzer wrote:<br><br>> I have two pdf files, a book as submitted, the same book formatted.<br>> Both from tex sources, unavailable.<br>> <br>> Is there is utility comparing the text of the two? Acrobat Pro<br>
> gets confused because of font
changes.<br>> <br>> GG<br>> ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br>> TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq" target="_blank">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br>> List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/" target="_blank">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/</a><br>
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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 01:00:15 -0500<br>From: George Gratzer <<a href="mailto:gratzer@me.com" target="_blank">gratzer@me.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] pdf compare<br>To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <<a href="mailto:macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu" target="_blank">macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu</a>><br>
Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:22811E5A-A5E6-4B48-A8AF-B8E95B6007FE@me.com" target="_blank">22811E5A-A5E6-4B48-A8AF-B8E95B6007FE@me.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1<br><br>This is certainly beyond my technical abilities...<br>
<br>GG<br><br>On 2011-02-27, at 12:51 AM, M. Tamer Özsu wrote:<br><br>> I think pdfdiff can do what you want -- it may be worth a try:<br>> <br>> <a href="http://people.inf.ethz.ch/cremersc/misc/pdfdiff.html" target="_blank">http://people.inf.ethz.ch/cremersc/misc/pdfdiff.html</a><br>
> <br>> ==Tamer<br>> <br>> On 2011-02-27, at 1:40 PM, George Gratzer wrote:<br>> <br>>> I
have two pdf files, a book as submitted, the same book formatted.<br>>> Both from tex sources, unavailable.<br>>> <br>>> Is there is utility comparing the text of the two? Acrobat Pro<br>>> gets confused because of font changes.<br>
>> <br>>> GG<br>>> ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br>>> TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq" target="_blank">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br>>> List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/" target="_blank">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/</a><br>
>> List Archive: <a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/" target="_blank">http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/</a><br>>> TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/" target="_blank">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a><br>
>> List Info: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex" target="_blank">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a><br>>> <br>> <br>> ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br>
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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:11:37 +0100<br>From: Berend Hasselman <<a href="mailto:bhh@xs4all.nl" target="_blank">bhh@xs4all.nl</a>><br>Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] pdf compare<br>To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <<a href="mailto:macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu" target="_blank">macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu</a>><br>
Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:FC77C1C6-A86E-4F15-B026-15F80B06ECDE@xs4all.nl" target="_blank">FC77C1C6-A86E-4F15-B026-15F80B06ECDE@xs4all.nl</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1<br><br><br>On 27-02-2011, at 07:00, George Gratzer wrote:<br>
<br>> This is certainly beyond my technical abilities...<br>> <br>> GG<br>> <br>> On 2011-02-27, at 12:51 AM, M. Tamer Özsu wrote:<br>> <br>>> I think pdfdiff can do what you want -- it may be worth a try:<br>
>> <br>>> <a href="http://people.inf.ethz.ch/cremersc/misc/pdfdiff.html" target="_blank">http://people.inf.ethz.ch/cremersc/misc/pdfdiff.html</a><br><br>In response to a query I made recently on this list about finding out the fonts used in a pdf,<br>
Michael Ummels sent a link to a disk image with the xpdf tools.<br><br>The link is:<br> <a href="http://users.phg-online.de/tk/MOSXS/xpdf-tools-3.dmg" target="_blank">http://users.phg-online.de/tk/MOSXS/xpdf-tools-3.dmg</a><br>
<br>A utility pdftotext amongst others will be installed in /usr/local/bin.<br>Just run the installer.<br><br>I have just tried to run pdfdiff.py and it works on my Mac OS X 10.6.6 provided you specify<br>the diff program to use (if you don't it tries to find a diff but appears to hang).<br>
<br>./pdfdiff.py -d opendiff A.pdf B.pdf<br><br>You need to have Xcode installed. And make pdfdiff.py executable with chmod +x pdfdiff.py.<br>If you don't have that, try -d diff instead.<br>All of this in
Terminal!<br><br>Berend<br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 9<br>Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:11:50 +0100<br>From: Peter Dyballa <<a href="mailto:Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE" target="_blank">Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] pdf compare<br>To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <<a href="mailto:macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu" target="_blank">macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu</a>><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:0D60EB26-1BE3-447A-B7FA-5A0FFCE870CF@Web.DE" target="_blank">0D60EB26-1BE3-447A-B7FA-5A0FFCE870CF@Web.DE</a>><br>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes<br><br><br>Am 27.02.2011 um 06:40 schrieb George Gratzer:<br><br>> Is there is utility comparing the text of the two?<br><br><br>Last year we had a thread on this topic.<br>
<br>--<br>Greetings<br><br> Pete<br><br>What is this talk
of 'release?' Klingons do not make software <br>'releases.' Our software 'escapes,' leaving a bloody trail of <br>designers and quality assurance people in its wake.<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br>
<br>Message: 10<br>Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:51:08 +0100<br>From: Peter Dyballa <<a href="mailto:Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE" target="_blank">Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE</a>><br>Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Latex tree<br>To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <<a href="mailto:macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu" target="_blank">macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu</a>><br>
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<br><br>Am 27.02.2011 um 06:04 schrieb
soumya dipta:<br><br>> I am trying to install some new packages in my system Mac OSX.<br><br>They should be kept outside the "regular" distribution, outside the <br>area managed by tlmgr/TLU. So it's either /usr/local/texlive/texmf- <br>
local for a system-wide or ~/Library/texmf for a personal <br>installation, if you're using MacTeX.<br><br>If you don't have a "global" file system, then you don't have a <br>"global" TeX tree. Besides, tlmgr and TeX have no idea of "global", <br>
they make a distinction between system-wide, as managed by tlmgr/TLU, <br>and personal. The system-wide trees have a release specific branch ( / <br>usr/local/texlive/20XY) and an independent branch (/usr/local/texlive/ <br>
texmf-local), for example for additional font support or to serve a <br>particular direction in science or to allow use of some non-Latin <br>script and a language that makes use of it. Other TeX
distributions <br>for UNIX systems support this for personal trees as well <br>(~/.texlive20XY) while MacTeX does not and puts the whole mix into one <br>~/Library/texmf tree. The system-wide trees necessitate to run 'sudo <br>
texhash <optional directory>" after each change – and this change can <br>only happen with elevated privileges.<br><br>Details are described in the TeX Directory Structure (TDS) <br>description. Many packages follow this "format" and can easily be <br>
installed in the branch's root.<br><br><br>If you could tell us what you intend to install we could give less <br>general annotations.<br><br>--<br>Greetings<br><br> Pete<br><br>Clovis' Consideration of an Atmospheric Anomaly:<br>
The perversity of nature is nowhere better demonstrated than <br>by the fact that, when exposed to the same atmosphere, bread becomes <br>hard while
crackers become soft<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 11<br>Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 06:35:16 -0600<br>From: Herbert Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" target="_blank">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Latex tree<br>To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <<a href="mailto:macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu" target="_blank">macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu</a>><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:0E6F9FF8-FA6E-4BED-9A6F-7CBA9C24856D@wideopenwest.com" target="_blank">0E6F9FF8-FA6E-4BED-9A6F-7CBA9C24856D@wideopenwest.com</a>><br>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii<br><br><br>On Feb 26, 2011, at 11:33 PM, Alan Munn wrote:<br><br>> On Feb 27, 2011, at 12:04 AM, soumya dipta wrote:<br>> <br>>> <br>>> Hello,<br>>> I am trying to install some new packages in my
system Mac OSX. <br>>> I will like to know what are the possible ways to do it. I also do not understand the local versus global tex tree structure and would like to know more about it.<br>> <br>> On a Mac, the local texmf folder is located in the Library folder of your Home directory. This is usually notated as "~/Library/texmf", where the "~" means "your home directory" (i.e. what you get when you click on the Home icon in a Finder window.).<br>
> <br>> Unless there are multiple accounts on your machine that all need access to the same local files, this is the folder you should use.<br>> <br>> When should I put things in the local texmf ?<br>> <br>
> Before putting anything into the local texmf folder, you should check that the relevant package isn't already part of TeXLive, and therefore included in the MacTeX distribution. The easiest way to do this is to use the TeXLive utility. This is
especially true of packages on CTAN, most of which are included in TeXLive, and should already be available to you.<br>> <br>> If you know that a package is not available as part of TeXLive, then you should put it into your local texmf folder.<br>
> <br><br>Howdy,<br><br>Let me add that my method for finding out if I need to install a package is to simply try to use it. If the package is not present you'll get an error message. The TeX Live distribution (what is installed by MacTeX) is so complete that I rarely have to install any extra packages.<br>
<br>> What goes where?<br>> <br>> The texmf folder contains a number of folders, and these folders themselves contain other folders. For most users, the three top-level folders that are most important are the following:<br>
> <br>> Folder What goes in it <br>> <br>> bibtex This is where bib files and bst files go. <br>>
It should contain at least the following folders: <br>> bst Put bst files here. <br>> bib Put bib files here.<br>> <br>> tex This is where new packages go. <br>> It should contain the following folders:<br>
> <br>> latex Put latex packages here (also biblatex styles) <br>> plain Put plain tex files here. <br>> xelatex Put xelatex specific packages here.<br>> xetex Put plain xetex files here.<br>> context Put context files here.<br>
> generic Put files that are usable with any TeX flavour here. <br>> <br>> doc Put documentation files from packages installed in the tex folder here. Putting the documentation files here allows them to
be found by the texdoc system (or the "Show Help for Package" function in the Help menu of TeXShop).<br>> <br>> Other top-level folders in include fonts, scripts, and source.<br>> <br>> Alan<br><br>
Also note that this set of folders inside folders is NOT created by default. You need to create the texmf folder and it's sub-folder tree inside ~/Library/ and then fill it as noted above.<br><br>Good Luck,<br><br>Herb Schulz<br>
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