[OS X TeX] Exclude directory from search path?

Matthew Leingang leingang at math.harvard.edu
Thu Nov 29 16:16:24 EST 2007


On Nov 29, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 29.11.2007 um 18:49 schrieb Matthew Leingang:
>
>>
>> The drawback is that if I create new subdirectories of ~/Pictures  
>> I have to rewrite this bit of code.
>
> Not when you have
>
> 	\usepackage{MyPictures}
>
> and MyPictures.sty has, as Schremmer described, just the  
> \graphicspath{} statement. It's just one file that needs to be kep  
> up-to-date ...

Exactly.  I didn't want to have to edit even one file at the same  
time as creating a directory.  But I can definitely work this way if  
I need to.

> Otherwise: does your TeX file A happen to use pictures from sub- 
> directory a until Christmas and afterwards also from sub-directory  
> c? If you start to think in "projects" you might find it less  
> complicated.

Now that is a good point.

Thanks for the help, everybody.

--Matt

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