[OS X TeX] [ANN] TeX Live Utility 0.5

Axel E. Retif axel.retif at mac.com
Thu Jan 8 16:31:39 EST 2009


On  8 Jan, 2009, at 07:22, Herbert Schulz wrote:

> On Jan 8, 2009, at 12:10 AM, Axel E. Retif wrote:
>
>>
>> Well... I know what I do is really unorthodox, but I keep my fonts  
>> (Lucida, Minion Pro) in ~/Library/texmf..., instead of /usr/ 
>> local.../texmf-local, and anyway use updmap-sys (but without -H) to  
>> enable the map files, as if for all users. Sensible people in this  
>> list have pointed out the potential problems of that, but as I am  
>> the only user in my machines...
>>
>> [...]
>
>
> Howdy,
>
> That is what I used to do too but have now switched to using texmf- 
> local just to get those files out of my HOME directory tree.

I think I will end up doing that, as fonts don't change that often,  
and keep ~/Library/texmf just for constantly changing packages, like  
pgf/TikZ from CVS.

Thank you,

Axel




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