[OS X TeX] personal package : following 2

Alain Schremmer schremmer.alain at gmail.com
Thu Dec 23 19:03:44 EST 2010


On Dec 23, 2010, at 2:18 PM, Alan Munn wrote:

> Since this is a problem that comes up from time to time, would it  
> be possible for the MacTeX installer to check if the ~/Library/ 
> texmf folder exists, and if it doesn't create one with the  
> appropriate folder structure?  (It's trivial to write a script to  
> do this. (I can send you one.) This would probably save very new  
> users a lot of frustration. I think many of underestimate how  
> familiar users are with how the files on their computer are  
> organized, so even the simple "make a bunch of directories" isn't  
> as simple a task as we might think.


Indeed!

I am contemplating moving to new hardware and thus system and I  
really would like it for the MacTeX installer to do the entire  
installation.

Best, hopeful, regards
--schremmer



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