[OS X TeX] Re: Path to TeX macro files

[David Goldschmidt]

Maarten --

Thanks for the info, but I'm trying to install noweb, a simplified version
of cweb.  If that doesn't work, I'll try nuweb, because I want LaTeX
rather than TeX.

David

On 11/25/06, Maarten Sneep <maarten.sneep at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 25-nov-2006, at 13:49, David Goldschmidt wrote:
>
> > I'm running a standard install of TeX (on Tiger) which I got from
> > CTAN, following
> > instructions given with TeXShop.  I believe the package is called
> > MacTeX.   The good news is that the install worked completely
> > automatically and TeX is running perfectly.  The bad news is that I
> > don't
> > know where anything is or how the installation actually works.  My
> > problem is that I'm trying to install a version of the CWEB literate
> > programming
>
> cweave and ctangle are part of mactex, I think.
>
> > system.  The makefile requires a path to TEXINPUTS, which is
> > described as
> > "the directory for TeX macro files".  The default given is
> > TEXINPUTS=/usr/local/tex/inputs
>
> Not setting it at all is the correct method I believe, but what you
> are trying to install is probably already there.
>
> Maarten
>
>
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