[Mac OS X TeX] How to set texhash's path?

Enrico Franconi franconi at cs.man.ac.uk
Mon Aug 13 05:24:56 EDT 2001



On August 13, Cyril Niklaus writes:
> >> Another problem I have: I just downloaded a new style, and would
> >> like Tex to know where it is, so I've put it in my
> >> ~/Library/texmf/, and ran texhash.
> 
> >> So when I run texhash, this is what I get:
> >> [pushpa:~] cyril% texhash
> >> texhash: /sw/share/texmf: directory not writable. Skipping...
> >> texhash: Updating /var/tmp/texfonts/ls-R...
> >> texhash: Done.
> >> which is not what I want, of course.

You need to declare the existence of your auxiliary texmf tree.
You should put in your .cshrc

setenv TEXMFMAIN   /sw/share/texmf
setenv TEXMFLOCAL  ~/Library/texmf
setenv TEXMF       \{\!\!"$TEXMFLOCAL":\!\!"$TEXMFMAIN"\}

and then run texhash.

cheers
-- e.

Enrico Franconi                     - franconi at cs.man.ac.uk
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