[OS X TeX] Installing the Harvard Package

[Adam Goldstein]

François Briatte wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have recently installed TeX on my MacBook, OSX 10.4.8. I am now
> trying to install the Harvard package (I am quite dependent on this
> package, i.e. I cannot just switch to another one).
>
> (a)
>
> I have created the following folder hierarchy: ~/texmf/tex/harvard and
> dropped the contents of the harvard.zip archive (downloaded from CTAN)
> into it.
>
> (b)
>
> When I launch BibDesk and ask to preview my references using harvard
> as BibTeX style, I get a long error log, copied below.
>
> (c)
>
> I did not modify the BibDesk TeX template, I did not modify my TeX
> install (Basic install from Wierda's i-installer).
>
>
> - Am I doing something wrong in (a) or (b) or even (c) ?
> - Is there an incompatibility between the package and my hardware, OS,
> software choices?
> - Does anyone know the situation?
> - How can I get the package to work?
>
> Many thanks for any tips or workarounds.
>
> FB
>
> ---
> TeX preview generation failed.  Please review the log below to
> determine the cause.
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
> (format=pdflatex 2006.10.28)  14 NOV
> 2006 19:13
> entering extended mode
> **bibpreview
> (./bibpreview.tex
> LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
> Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, 
> ngerman, b
> ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, 
> esperanto, e
> stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar, 
> norsk, polis
> h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish, 
> swedish, tur
> kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/size10.clo
> File: size10.clo 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX file (size option)
> )
> \c at part=\count79
> \c at section=\count80
> \c at subsection=\count81
> \c at subsubsection=\count82
> \c at paragraph=\count83
> \c at subparagraph=\count84
> \c at figure=\count85
> \c at table=\count86
> \abovecaptionskip=\skip41
> \belowcaptionskip=\skip42
> \bibindent=\dimen102
> ) (./bibpreview.aux)
> \openout1 = `bibpreview.aux'.
> LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OML/cmm/m/it on input line 11.
> LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 11.
> LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for T1/cmr/m/n on input line 11.
> LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 11.
> LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OT1/cmr/m/n on input line 11.
> LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 11.
> LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OMS/cmsy/m/n on input line 11.
> LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 11.
> LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OMX/cmex/m/n on input line 11.
> LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 11.
> LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for U/cmr/m/n on input line 11.
> LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 11.
> (./bibpreview.bbl) (./bibpreview.aux) )
> Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
> 202 strings out of 94424
> 2201 string characters out of 1172362
> 2048354 words of memory out of 4500000
> 3496 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000
> 3640 words of font info for 14 fonts, out of 2000000 for 2000
> 582 hyphenation exceptions out of 5000
> 23i,1n,19p,131b,36s stack positions out of 
> 5000i,500n,6000p,200000b,40000s
> PDF statistics:
> 0 PDF objects out of 300000
> 0 named destinations out of 131072
> 1 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 10000
> No pages of output.
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I don't know if this is too easy---but don't the .bst files have to be 
in ~/texmf/tex/harvard/bibtex/bst ? Otherwise BibDesk won't be able to 
find it.

-Adam G
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