[OS X TeX] Question about MacTex

[Axel E. Retif]

On  28 Sep, 2007, at 09:04, Itamar Francez wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm new to the list. I have installed recently MacTex on my mac and
> everything works great, except that I have to store all my .tex files
> under one folder. If I have sub-folder (e.g. with all the files
> relevant to some project), Texshop tells me it can't find some of
> my .sty files (particularly, gb4e.sty) and some of my .bst files. I
> tried to copy the .sty file to:
>  /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex

When you add files to directories inside /usr/local/texlive... you  
have to

sudo texhash

in Terminal.app.

> but this didn't help. I also created a texmf folder on my home
> directory, that's not helping either.

You have to put the texmf directory inside your Library directory;  
that is, your HOME texmf directory is, on the Mac, $HOME/Library/ 
texmf, and you have to create subdirectories there, like ~/Library/ 
texmf/tex/latex and ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bst.

There is no need to texhash here.

Best,

Axel


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