[OS X TeX] documentation files of local additions

[Herbert Schulz]

On Apr 1, 2007, at 1:54 PM, Roussanka Loukanova wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There have been quite a lot and good discussions about where to  
> place the local additions. But I am not quite certain where to put  
> the documentation of the local additions in the upper trees.
>
> Am I right in the following summary of the local repositories and  
> the concomitant documentations?
>
> in gwTeX:
>
> - for user additions:
> /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/
>

Howdy,

Generally. But not usually in the root of that directory.

> = for *.sty files:
> /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/latex
>

Not quite. /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/tex/latex/

> = for documentation files:
> /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/doc/latex
>

Yes.

> - for automatically generated files:
> /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local
> ...

By the system when setting things up. E.g., when formats are  
generated by the system, for the map files generated by updmap-sys,  
etc. Not for local additions.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)



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