[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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