[Mac OS X TeX] The texmf tree

[Norman Gray]

Greetings,

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 mclean at physics.queensu.ca wrote:

> Ross Moore's comments in digest 29 on setting up a local texmf tree
were
> very useful. I set up a local texmf tree in my home directory,
> 
> ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/misc/
> 
> [...]
> 
> ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/bibtex/bst/
> 
> However, BibTeX did not see the bst file. BibTeX works fine if I have
> the apsrev.bst file

In general, kpsewhich is your friend.  Along with the other TeX
binaries, there should be a kpsewhich program[1].  This is invaluable
for working out the effects of the various settings in the texmf.cnf
file, and in general working out TeX's view of the world.  For example:

    kpsewhich bst plain.bst
    kpsewhich cnf texmf.cnf

finds where plain.bst and texmf.cnf are and, if you have more than one
in your path, which one it'll select.

    kpsepath bst
    kpsewhich --show-path=bst

shows the complete path, taking things like the TEXINPUTS environment
variable into account.  And

    kpsewhich --expand-var=\$TEXMF

will show you the value of TEXMF which results from the settings in the
texmf.cnf file.

All the best,

Norman


[1] This is certainly true of the set of TeX binaries I lifted from
    CTAN:systems/unix/teTeX/1.0/distrib/binaries/powerpc-rhapsody.tar.gz
    based on web2c.  I don't know for certain if other Mac TeX builds
    have it (though since it's a component of the kpathsea library which
    parses the texmf.cnf file, if you have texmf.cnf, I'd guess you have
    kpsewhich), but they certainly ought to, since it's so useful.

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