[OS X TeX] pdflatex.fmt format file missing

[Robert Morelli]

Robert Morelli wrote:
> 2. TeX-Live on Mac seems to handle the $TEXMF environment variable 
> differently than other systems.
> A short note in the readme file indicates that this variable does not 
> need to be set on OS X and that
> tex searches in ~/Library/texmf for personal style files. I can see 
> the logic of that, but I'd prefer to go
> on doing things the old way because I occasionally use other Unix 
> systems. Specifically, I'd like to
> tell tex to look in certain directories within my home directory tree 
> for additional style files. What's
> the standard way to do that?
>
Actually, I seem to have misunderstood. The $TEXMF variable is not 
necessary if you only want to use
~/Library/texmf, but it is not ignored if it is set. So it seems under 
OS X we have the best of both worlds.

I set the following in my .bash_profile and it's working fine:


if [ `uname` = "Darwin" ]; then
    TEXMFMAIN=/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist
    TEXMFLOCAL=/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
elif [ `uname` = "SunOS" ]; then
.
.
.
fi

TEXMF={$TEXMFLOCAL,$TEXMFMAIN}
export 
TEXINPUTS_latex=.:$HOME/Papers/TeXInputs:$TEXMF/tex/{latex,latex3,generic,}//
export 
TEXINPUTS_pdflatex=.:$HOME/Papers/TeXInputs:$TEXMF/{pdftex,tex}/{latex,latex3,generic,}//:$TEXMF/pdftex/config
export BIBINPUTS=.:$HOME/Papers:$TEXMF/bibtex/{bib,}//



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