MacOSX-TeX Digest #30 - 06/06/01
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MacOSX-TeX Digest #30 - Wednesday, June 6, 2001
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Carbon CMacTeX
by "Tom Kiffe" <tom at kiffe.com>
The texmf tree
by <mclean at physics.queensu.ca>
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] The texmf tree
by "Michael Goldweber" <mikeyg at cerebro.cs.xu.edu>
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] The texmf tree
by "Norman Gray" <norman+lists at astro.gla.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Carbon CMacTeX
From: "Tom Kiffe" <tom at kiffe.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 23:16:28 -0500
Josh,
I am not familiar with prosper but, if it is just a set of macros for
latex, it should work with CMacTeX. Do you know if it uses any perl
scripts or anything else that is strictly unix?
--Tom
>Tom,
>
>Can you tell me if you know whether the ``prosper" macros
>(for making powerpoint-like presentations) work with
>CMacTex, and how hard they are to install in that setting.
>
>I am desperately in search of some way of running prosper on
>the mac.
>
>Josh
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Subject: The texmf tree
From: <mclean at physics.queensu.ca>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 11:03:48 -0400
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/
added my REVTeX style files and made the mods to the texmf.cnf files as
Richard describes in his help file. I got the fonts working for the
first time
with the REVTeX package. Great! Now, I tried to do the same thing
with the BibTeX files. I put the apsrev.bst file in
~/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 the working directory. Do I also have to tell BibTeX to search the
local texmf tree
or do I have the tree structure wrong ?
It would be great to have more info on the tree structure. The files I
am working with are:
revtex4.cls The REVTeX 4 class file
aps.rtx APS specific REVTeX 4 customizations for Phys. Rev.
rmp.rtx APS specific REVTeX 4 customizations for Rev. Mod. Phys.
10pt.rtx 10 point size class option file for REVTeX.
11pt.rtx 11 point size class option file for REVTeX.
12pt.rtx 12 point size class option file for REVTeX.
apsrev.bst A new custom-bib based BibTeX style file for use
with REVTeX 4 for Phys. Rev. style citations.
apsrmp.bst For Rev. Mod. Physics (author/year) style citations
revsymb.sty A collection of common symbols for use outside
of REVTeX.
Where should they go ? Very useful discussion !
Alastair McLean
NanoPhysics Group, Queen's University, Kingston,
Ontario, K7L3N6, CANADA.
EMAIL: mclean at physics.queensu.ca
WWW: http://nanophysics.phy.queensu.ca
TEL (613) 533 2709 FAX (613) 533 6463
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] The texmf tree
From: "Michael Goldweber" <mikeyg at cerebro.cs.xu.edu>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 11:25:16 -0400
>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/
>
>added my REVTeX style files and made the mods to the texmf.cnf files as
>Richard describes in his help file. I got the fonts working for the first time
>with the REVTeX package. Great! Now, I tried to do the same thing
>with the BibTeX files. I put the apsrev.bst file in
>
>~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/bibtex/bst/
try
~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bst/
BibTeX is a separate package from TeX, while LaTeX is a subcomponent of TeX.
I would recommend that instead of putting the file in
~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bst/
you place it in a directory inside this location. (Use the package
name the bst file derives from instead of placing everything in misc.)
>
>However, BibTeX did not see the bst file. BibTeX works fine if I
>have the apsrev.bst file
>in the working directory. Do I also have to tell BibTeX to search
>the local texmf tree
>or do I have the tree structure wrong ?
No, BibTeX does not need any special instructions if you follow the
recommended TDS.
>
>It would be great to have more info on the tree structure. The files
>I am working with are:
I suggest poking around on /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf to get a feel
for how the TDS is organized.
--
Michael Goldweber Associate Professor of Computer Science
Xavier University Dept. of Math and Computer Science
email: mikeyg at cerebro.cs.xu.edu 3800 Victory Parkway
phone: (513) 745-3936 Cincinnati OH 45207-4441
fax: (513) 745-3272
http://cerebro.xu.edu/~mikeyg/
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] The texmf tree
From: "Norman Gray" <norman+lists at astro.gla.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 11:52:26 -0400
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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Norman Gray http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/
Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK norman at astro.gla.ac.uk
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