[OS X TeX] "local" files under Windows

[Aditya Dushyant Trivedi]

Somehow the subject did not stick. Same email with teh right subject heading.

Gary L. Gray wrote:
>Francesco Costanzo and I are teaching a LaTeX class this semester and
>we have an unfortunate number of students who are using Windows. :-(
>These students are asking us where one installs local files under
>Windows and we don't have the faintest idea. By local files, I mean
>those files that, in Mac OS X, go in:

>~/Library/texmf/

I use MiKTeX on Windows. The local files are stored in localtexmf folder. The default location for it C:\localtexmf. You want to maintain the tex hierarchy. I store my tex files under localtexmf\tex\latex\, etc.

However, after you do that you will have to update the File Database (similar to texhash). You do that from MiKTeX Options ->General Tab -> Refresh Now button.

-Eddy


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