[OS X TeX] TEXINPUTS?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 17.08.2006 um 11:44 schrieb trashomatic1 at mac.com:

> Hello.  A new question: I used to have my pdflatex set up to look  
> for \inputs in ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex .  I thought it came from  
> adding that to the TEXINPUTS path in my .bashrc with a command like;
>
> TEXINPUTS="$TEXINPUTS:.:$HOME/Library/texmf/tex/latex"
> export TEXINPUTS
>
> This doesn't work, however.  How can I set latex to look in that  
> folder by default?  Thanks.
>

You should not need to do that! In /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/ 
texmf.cnf HOMETEXMF is defined, which is then integrated into TEXMF  
as first element and which does not use a TeX hash file. Then TEXMF  
is used to set a few specialised TEXINPUTS variables.

TeX's behaviour is to search the whole ~/Library/texmf branch, so  
files in ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex would be found. See for example / 
usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/README.howtexfindsfiles.


Besides, what you set in your ~/.bashrc has no influence on TeXShop,  
which is an Aqua application and needs to learn such environment  
variables in a different way. Then TeXShop's "engines" are tcsh  
scripts, so they don't read your ~/.bashrc either.

--
Greetings

   Pete

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                     -- Garfield


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